Weird Harold
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The Cool Science Stuff Thread
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Bacigalupo
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Saint Peter
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Fuck that.
Keep the science real!
Keep the science real!
MonaLittle
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Bring back the Lips!
Saint Peter
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HPLMS&M!
trysail
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A very good test of your scientific literacy:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/
Warning: It's not easy ( no cheating !!! )
(40 of 50 correct)
bluntforcemama
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THUNDER LIZARD! That was cool. Thanks! As I take this, I'm not doing as well as I thought I would.
Peregrinator
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I got 46. A few of those questions are about the history of science, though, and not concepts. I guess that's inevitable, but if you really want to know about someone's science literacy, asking them which astronomer discovered red shift isn't going to tell you; asking them why it occurs will. Or, ffs, which element is yellow and referred to in the Bible as brimstone.
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Peregrinator
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This, too; asking someone about the etymology of a word isn't "science literacy."
Most of the questions were well done, though, I thought.
bluntforcemama
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I pretty much bombed all the physics questions about various laws.
JohnnySavage
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You answered 40 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 80%.
bluntforcemama
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Do the smartypants dance. I only got 30 correct. Have I mentioned that having children drastically lowers one's IQ?
JohnnySavage
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I guessed on a few, and I had a few correct answers that I changed to wrong ones, so it averaged out. I knew the elements, the planets and units of measurements. I didn't know much about who invented what.
Peregrinator
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I wasn't going to whine about it, but one of the questions I missed was because I clicked the wrong box. That would be the one about fluid and acceleration...
phrodeau
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On average, each page takes 25 seconds to load. If I answer each question in one second, and click on "next" to initiate each page load as soon as possible, it will take 42.5 minutes for me to complete the quiz.
I'll have to do it a bit later.
BoyNextDoor
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Quiz results
34 Correct 16 Wrong
You answered 34 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 68%.
34 Correct 16 Wrong
You answered 34 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 68%.
Colonel Hogan
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At least I was smart enough to abort the damn thing when I scored less than 50% about halfway through.
