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Title: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Waitone on July 18, 2011, 05:41:39 PM

Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey and compare your results with elected officials and general public

Here is the quiz
http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692

And here are the results
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html

What surprises me is how our elected officials appear to score lower than Joe and Martha Sixpack. 

I scored 97%.

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 18, 2011, 06:04:06 PM

This would be the second go-round.

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=30300.0

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: cambeul41 on July 18, 2011, 06:15:29 PM

I got 32 of 33 questions. Perhaps I have not forgotten as much as I thought.

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What surprises me is how our elected officials appear to score lower than Joe and Martha Sixpack.

Agreed.

I will forward this to family and friends.

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: BryanP on July 18, 2011, 08:32:16 PM

This showed up on my FB page recently.  I scored 31/33, and one of the two I missed I knew but somehow managed to select the wrong option anyway.  :facepalm: I really didn't think it was that difficult.

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Hawkmoon on July 18, 2011, 09:00:42 PM

I also scored 31/33. The fact that college-educated respondants averaged only 55% is a sad commentary on our colleges and universities (although, to be honest, most of the answers should have been taught in high school civics and history classes).

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Waitone on July 18, 2011, 09:05:02 PM

I would be interested in seeing how TEA party types score given their professed allegiance to all things constitutional.

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Scout26 on July 18, 2011, 09:14:25 PM

Quote from: Waitone on July 18, 2011, 09:05:02 PM

I would be interested in seeing how TEA party types score given their professed allegiance to all things constitutional.

Just go back in look in the original thread (http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=30300.0) regarding this test.  Most people here score in the high 20's and low 30's, mostly well over 85% on the test.  Not that APS'ers are TEA partiers, but most do tend to be more libertarian leaning.   

Title: Re: Take the ISI Civics Literacy survey
Post by: Chuck Dye on July 18, 2011, 09:35:09 PM

I managed 32/33.  On the one I blew, I was unsure, dithered, and talked myself out of my first instinct, which was correct.  Grrrr!

As to elected pols underperforming, read the real job description:  Get elected, get re-elected.  There is nothing there about knowledge or competence.