http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/?src=pp-report

And post your results:


I'm frankly stunned if anyone scores under 10-11. How only 8% got 13/13 is ridiculous.

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 6:05 PM. Reason : ]

4/20/2012 6:05:23 PM

knowing the answers to those questions would requiring listening to the news and/or reading a news article, rather than listening to your pastor or rush limbaugh.

i got the same score, btw
13/13


[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 6:09 PM. Reason : ]

4/20/2012 6:08:39 PM

4/20/2012 6:08:58 PM

How did 4% get 0 right?

4/20/2012 6:10:11 PM

13/13

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 6:11 PM. Reason : ^ they got the names confused? haha]

4/20/2012 6:10:29 PM

I can't understand how people can get any of these wrong

4/20/2012 6:12:14 PM

also

4/20/2012 6:12:20 PM

13/13
Any idiot could score at least 10.

4/20/2012 6:12:24 PM

so, what we are saying is the top 8% of the country is here on tww.... hmm

4/20/2012 6:13:11 PM

WE ARE THE 8%

4/20/2012 6:14:06 PM

13/13, way too easy

4/20/2012 6:16:00 PM

13/13

4/20/2012 6:23:53 PM

12/13

fucked up on lincoln

4/20/2012 6:25:26 PM

geniusboy will cheat on this and then brag about getting it all right

4/20/2012 6:26:47 PM

12/13 but only because I forgot Abe Lincoln was a Republican FUUUUUU

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 6:41 PM. Reason : ^2 at least I do not stand alone]

4/20/2012 6:41:03 PM

13/13

easy shit

4/20/2012 6:43:42 PM

1/13 I kept looking for the Ron Paul option but couldn't find it so I just guessed.

4/20/2012 6:49:48 PM

13/13

i was surprised, i thought i'd have something like FDR's party wrong. it was only my best guess that he was a Dem but i thought it likely that wasn't the case.

4/20/2012 7:10:09 PM

Yep 13/13 too...the only one I could see most somewhat intelligent people missing is the Lincoln question. The rest are fairly obvious.

4/20/2012 7:17:12 PM

Quote :

"The quiz was made up of 13 questions excerpted from the larger Knowledge Survey. Your responses do not affect the survey results."

4/20/2012 7:21:53 PM

13/13...lol FDR was like the father of modern progressivism.

I thought the reducing defense budget was a trick question that I would get wrong.

4/20/2012 7:25:20 PM

13/13 boom

4/20/2012 7:30:14 PM

I was half-expecting the quiz to be a trick and at the end tell me how the man is tricking me into believing media lies.

4/20/2012 7:31:13 PM

I don't read/listen to the news....but I listen to my pastor and occasionally rush limbaugh...

I got 13/13

4/20/2012 7:31:22 PM

with stats like that it would seem they should only allow college graduates to vote


assuming they're land-owners over 30, of course

4/20/2012 8:02:15 PM

the scary part is that you had to have internet access to take this quiz so the dumbest are not even included.

4/20/2012 8:05:40 PM

They were probably using the data they collected in the phone survey as the graphical representation. Old people are completely misinformed about politics, I bet that's where a lot of it came from. Pretty sad because that's also the demographic most likely to vote.

13/13

4/20/2012 11:27:33 PM

Quote :

"The News IQ Quiz"

where is the news?

13/13

4/20/2012 11:32:09 PM

Quote :

"the scary part is that you had to have internet access to take this quiz"

You don't have to have the internet to participate in a phone survey. This was a scientific study.

4/20/2012 11:41:10 PM

13/13, obviously

Honestly, anyone who misses a question on that test shouldn't be voting. The fact that only 8% of the country has any clue at all is why I don't usually vote...the politicians are catering to the 92% who are totally incapable of making good voting decisions.

4/20/2012 11:55:04 PM

I was thinking the other day what would happen if people participated in a mass voter boycott. If a candidate wins with like 10% of the actual vote, they would have no public mandate to do anything and perhaps we could finally see some things change for the better.

4/21/2012 12:00:27 AM

I got most of them wrong. I kept looking for the Democrat party, and it was never an option.

4/21/2012 2:13:49 PM

Idk who John Boner is

4/21/2012 2:38:09 PM

13/13

4/21/2012 2:41:54 PM

I got 13/13 correct.


Thank god they didn't ask about senators and congressmen that don't make the news though.

Popquiz:

Without googling: which one is a 2008 elected Senator?


a) William Binney
b) John Hudson
c) Raffi Torres
d) Jeff Sessions

4/21/2012 2:59:07 PM

sessions has been in congress for a while

so i'm guessing him

4/21/2012 3:02:06 PM

i missed one. damned Nancy P.

4/21/2012 3:08:50 PM

13/13

Obvious answers are obvious. Oh and shocking result that college educated people have more knowledge of politics than HS grads. Ground breaking stuff.

4/21/2012 3:24:45 PM

i got them all right, but the questions about past presidents' polical views aren't necessarily the easiest questions in the world.

4/21/2012 4:51:05 PM

4/21/2012 4:55:25 PM

12/13, missed the John Boehner question because the House of Reps is weak

4/21/2012 4:56:58 PM

missed party affiliations:
Pelosi, Roosevelt, Boehner

10/13

4/21/2012 5:00:11 PM

I got 12/13, I thought the democrats wanted reduce the size and scope of the federal government, but apparently its the republicans, not sure when this occurred in history.

[Edited on April 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM. Reason : wrong question]

4/21/2012 5:14:36 PM

^That's not right. The answer for that one was the dems, you must have missed a different one.

4/21/2012 5:15:33 PM

wat

4/21/2012 5:28:44 PM

pretty sure the answer is d) jeff sessions

4/21/2012 5:29:24 PM

when, since the civil war, have democrats ever wanted to reduce the size of the federal government?


pretty sure fdr made the federal government gigantic under his virtually endless reign

4/21/2012 5:33:29 PM

Quote :

" I thought the democrats wanted reduce the size and scope of the federal government, but apparently its the republicans, not sure when this occurred in history."

Are you fucking serious

4/21/2012 5:34:37 PM

Quote :

"12/13, missed the John Boehner question"

Guess I shouldn't be voting.

4/21/2012 5:44:48 PM

Quote :

" I thought the democrats wanted reduce the size and scope of the federal government, but apparently its the republicans, not sure when this occurred in history."

Quote :

"^That's not right. The answer for that one was the dems, you must have missed a different one."

Are you fucking serious

4/21/2012 5:48:51 PM