How much do you know about science topics?

[Topspin]

Questions are way too easy. Boring for a stable genius........


-Richard

[StuM]

Originally Posted by meirriba

I got 10 out of 11.
Only one wrong - deforestation.
And I still believe, that as phrased, the answer is decrease in co2. There is no erosion if the forest is replaced by a different use. Erosion does happen if you take down the trees and leave the area denuded.

Less trees = less photosynthesis = LESS CO2 converted to oxygen and organic compounds. So theoretically, more CO2 remains in the atmosphere -the opposite of a "decrease in CO2".

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by SeanPatrick

This exact scenario actually happened to me in high school. I was the one who got it right. I wasn't very popular that day.

I'll bet. If they graded on the curve then you totally blew it for everyone else.

In retrospect I'm not sure if I would have gotten it or not if I had been given one of those.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by StuM

Less trees = less photosynthesis = LESS CO2 converted to oxygen and organic compounds. So theoretically, more CO2 remains in the atmosphere -the opposite of a "decrease in CO2".

Sorry but I just can't help myself.

Wouldn't that be "fewer trees"?

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by Topspin

Questions are way too easy. Boring for a stable genius........


-Richard

[StuM]

Originally Posted by skipmac

Sorry but I just can't help myself.

Wouldn't that be "fewer trees"?

Depends on whether you are a prescriptive or descriptive grammarian.


Which one a person uses depends on where they (plural pronoun with singular precedent? Oh my!) come from (hmm, ending a sentence with a proposition?).


To pedantically abide (oh dear, a split infinitive?) by an archaic rule based on a comment back in 1770 by the linguist Robert Baker is something up with which I shall not put.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by StuM

To pedantically abide (oh dear, a split infinitive?) by an archaic rule based on a comment back in 1770 by the linguist Robert Baker is something up with which I shall not put.

And I see you rebut using a quote (probably incorrectly) attributed to Churchill.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by StuM

Depends on whether you are a prescriptive or descriptive grammarian.

In this I would describe myself as a bit of both, leaning towards descriptive but some things just don't sound right to me.

On the other hand I am a spelling anarchist and think it might make sense to spell words the way they're pronounced, like rite instead of right or write and thru or even threw instead of through but I realize that would be a futile battle to join.

[Hhew]

Before I took this test I prayed that I would get 100% and I did! Prayer works!

[StuM]

Originally Posted by skipmac

In this I would describe myself as a bit of both, leaning towards descriptive but some things just don't sound right to me.

So were you taught to "use fewer for countable things" when you were fewer than 10 years old?
Do you fill the petrol tank when you have fewer than two gallons left?

[AiniA]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

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I haven't found a lot of value in leaning toward any particular sequence ("c" or whatever) answer. The bias isn't significant enough to really change the outcome in most cases.

I told kids to use the c) strategy if they had no idea what the answer was - better, perhaps not hugely so, than a pure guess.

A really good test will have placed correct answers with a random number generator to avoid any bias.

[Tonali99]

You guys suckered me into it. Thanx ..
Yeah!! Aced it.

[JPA Cate]

I was surprised at how easy the 11 questions were, but as to the question about the 9, what relation does it bear to an average of thirty. "None", or "irrelevant." If it were those two choices, either would be correct, or am I missing something?

Fairly shocked by the notion of the average american woman missing 5 of them. Golly!

Ann

[Bruce K]

If you fully understand quantum mechanics, you would realise that none of the answers are totally correct, they simply have a higher probability of being correct!

[Singularity]

Originally Posted by Bruce K

If you fully understand quantum mechanics, you would realise that none of the answers are totally correct, they simply have a higher probability of being correct!

Alternatively, they are all correct...but only within the system that supports each of them being so.

In our system, less trees=higher probability of being correct.