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And I might be convinced that a question about the history of science isn’t science per se.

A biology professor of mine once pee-ohed the entire class by having a whole set of exam questions to be historical in nature, i.e. match the person to the discovery.



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12/12
I knew the answer for all except I had to use the process of elimination to figure out the polio question.



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12/12.
Not very difficult.
 
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12/12 and then 13/13. Though I don't know that the polio vaccine question was really fair. I never knew that answer before medical school...
 
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The polio question was easy for me as I was a "Polio Pioneer" and still have my card like this one:



..as for the quiz: 12/12



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11/12!
 
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11/12 miss the light refraction.



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12/12

But I have a degree from SIGforum U.




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I only got 10/12. Guess I'm not as smart as I thought Smile
 
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12/12

I had to think a bit about which part of the Earth is the hottest.




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12/12 here. I apparently missed some of the last pages with more personal questions. (I didn't see the "postgraduate" response for education, for example.)

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Missed polio - it was 50/50, Curie or Salk.


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12/12 & 13/13

But these tests are so wrong, because I don't believe in the anthropomorphic, apocalyptic global warming, climate change religion. So I must be science stupid.

Seriously though, I did not think it was much of a test. I did not think any question was challenging, other than checking to make sure it wasn't some kind of a trick question. There were no trick questions however which are common on these sorts of tests. I'm going to give this to my younger boys (13 & 15) and see how they do.

One thing I was surprised about is how men outscored women on 23 out of 25 questions, generally by more than 10 points. The two questions on which women outscored men involved medical, control group testing and the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.




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11/12 I missed the magnifying glass one.


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12/12 but it wasn't really much of a test. Will let my just graduated daughter try it tomorrow.


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!2/12 for me.

Maybe fun but a complete joke of course!

They float around Facebook a lot, just made a 100% score yesterday on one that said "Only a Nurse can answer all these correctly"
Not a nurse, never studied anything remotely close to it, heck I don't even think I know a nurse! LOL!



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12/12 - This was pretty easy for an old guy who was in a scientific field when a pup.
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12/12. Not too shabby.
 
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12/12 and 13/13



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