Thursday, March 27, 2008

Civics Test

My friend Connie over at Pieces of Thought pointed me to a wonderful civics test.

I took it. I did miss one, and the irony is that I am not sure why I missed it. I didn't like the answers offered to number two. I knew Freedom of Religion was a correct choice. And I thought that the right to bear arms was one. I knew that the right to vote WAS NOT a correct choice. But my choices were all or just one, and I am not sure what logic or semantics they were using not to have that count as the Second Amendment.

Other than that - perfect score. So my total is 29. If you take the test feel free to come back and post your score. Of 43000 who have taken the test as of now, a little more than 1000 had perfect scores and about the same number missed only one (And I am curious how many missed question number 2 like I did).
About four thousand and change missed about 8 (a little more than one quarter of the questions) and the same missed nine of thirty. Missing nine would be a score of 70% -- passing when I went to school (versus 60 now).

The statistics were woefully lacking, only showing the mean for each age group that took the test.
But they did break out the curve for the total population.
30 1,066 Perfect Score
29 1,058
28 1,282
27 1,501
26 1,938
25 2,304
24 3,054
23 3,543
22 4,010
21 4,140
20 3,992
19 3,445
18 2,922
17 2,280
16 1,938
15 1,483
14 1,067
13 848
12 568
11 344
10 225
9 130
8 65
7 30
6 23
5 15
4 7
3 6
2 3
0 19

43,306

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