ADULT SCIENCE QUIZ Time to use the ole noggin boys!

[VanessaofBC]

Here is a quiz on how much science adults know.

Only 7% of the adult population gets all
13 questions correct.

See how you do.


http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/

 

[VanessaofBC]

Twelve, baby.

Awesome, me too. I am too embarrassed to say WHICH one I got wrong though!!!

 

[Alix Turner]

12.. i got the one about what makes up atmosphere wrong

... don't judge me!

 

[amigo67]

12/13 correct
Failed at fracking ... lol

 

[newton man]

My education pays off. 13/13 correct

 

[Daytime Owl]

hmmm...looks like I will bring down the scores. 11/13 for me.

missed on:
Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?
Electrons are smaller than atoms

 

[VanessaofBC]

yeah...
people love to define themselves as smart but at the same time can't differentiate between what is knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, reason, humility or arrogance?.
In the modern world we are all smart enough.

WOW, I have to determine which of the 6 types of intelligence a human might have!?!?!

12.. i got the one about what makes up atmosphere wrong

... don't judge me!

me too.......

 

[who]

12/13
the earth's atmosphere one

 

[Unpossible]

hmmm...looks like I will bring down the scores. 11/13 for me.

missed on:
Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?
Electrons are smaller than atoms

Me as well.

 

[bmwdriver]

13. Had to think about the atmosphere one.

 

[Feenix]

12 for me, too. Got the make up of earth's crust wrong. And I knew the answer. :doh:

 

[HankQuinlan]

I find it hard to believe that 12 out of 13 is a better score than 85% that took the test. I consider myself a scientific illiterate, yet still only got one wrong (atmosphere makeup, picked hydrogen). Something is fishy.

Edit: I get it now -- the percentages were from random phone surveys -- the same people Jay Leno interviews on the street. It makes sense that people voluntarily taking a quiz online would do much better. Still...

 

[Poseidon]

13/13 I found those questions trivial.

 

[bcneil]

Very easy 13. I always thought it was common knowledge air is about 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% argon. With everything else less than 1%

 

[VanessaofBC]

Very easy 13. I always thought it was common knowledge air is about 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% argon. With everything else less than 1%

No, no its not.......Now it is though.

 

[bcneil]

No, no its not.......Now it is though.

I think that question threw some of you, cause they called air, the atmosphere?
Cause outer space is like 99% hydrogen.

 

[johnsmit]

would be supried if i did not get 13/13..
lucky there was no spelling questions..

Oh no space is not mostly Hydrogen .. the sun is hydrogen..
Space is a vacum.. so there is no preasure.. . and gases.. do exist put as sigular particals. greatly spsced.. . as with most other particals in space . onless drawn together by gravity.
Dark matter seemz to be the most abundent mattterial i space... not planets..

 

[vancity_cowboy]

would be supried if i did not get 13/13..
lucky there was no spelling questions..

Oh no space is not mostly Hydrogen .. the sun is hydrogen..

bcneil is right john, hydrogen, a little bit of helium and sub-atomic particles called neutrinos (i think)

they're spaced so far apart that even a crack shot like me would have a hard time hittin' em, lol

 

[Larry Storch]

13/13
Grade 9 edumacation.
Avid viewer of Big Bang Theory.
Thank you Dr. Sheldon Cooper.

 

[Bone_eve]

13/13 most were very easy only one I had to think a wee bit