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Basic science knowledge quiz.
July 08, 2017, 07:38 PM
kkinaBasic science knowledge quiz.
quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
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.
July 08, 2017, 07:49 PM
SpinZone12/12
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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July 08, 2017, 07:51 PM
msfzoe12/12.
Not very difficult.
July 08, 2017, 08:01 PM
barndg0012/12 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...
July 08, 2017, 08:08 PM
bald1The 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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July 08, 2017, 08:09 PM
Deplorable_Dixie11/12!
July 08, 2017, 08:21 PM
Deqlyn11/12 miss the light refraction.
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sigmonkey12/12
But I have a degree from SIGforum U.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! July 08, 2017, 08:32 PM
drew3630I only got 10/12. Guess I'm not as smart as I thought
July 08, 2017, 08:54 PM
jigray312/12
I had to think a bit about which part of the Earth is the hottest.
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman July 08, 2017, 09:04 PM
flashguy12/12 here. I apparently missed some of the last pages with more personal questions. (I didn't see the "postgraduate" response for education, for example.)
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth July 08, 2017, 09:17 PM
rsd1220Missed polio - it was 50/50, Curie or Salk.
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July 08, 2017, 09:19 PM
Fenris12/12 & 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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The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. July 08, 2017, 09:23 PM
Shifferbrains12/12
July 08, 2017, 09:27 PM
smithnsig11/12 I missed the magnifying glass one.
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July 08, 2017, 09:31 PM
wreckdiver12/12 but it wasn't really much of a test. Will let my just graduated daughter try it tomorrow.
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July 08, 2017, 09:38 PM
cparktd!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!
If it ain't woke... don't fix it. July 08, 2017, 10:24 PM
mcrimm12/12 - This was pretty easy for an old guy who was in a scientific field when a pup.
Mike
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Spiff_P23912/12. Not too shabby.
July 08, 2017, 11:10 PM
DougE12/12 and 13/13
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