Comments on: Are You Smarter Than A Politician?

By: Lynx

Lynx — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:01:49 +0000

Hmmm, I did worse than anyone 84.85%, 28 out of the 33.

#4 – The Lincoln Douglass debates
#8 – . Roosevelt and the justices
#9 – . What only the federal government can do
#11 -. The federalists and the bill of rights
#17 -. Sputnik (I said it was the dog)

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:53:04 +0000

Three:
#8 (Roosevelt and the justices)- I just plain forgot
#11 (Anti-Federalists and the Bill of Rights)- I either never knew or I am getting early Alzheimers
#27 (free markets and the means/ends)- I didn't understand what was meant by “means and ends”, though it's pretty obvious, I was thinking of something else. I did “overthink” the answer on this one. Grrr….

To be fair there were a couple more I wasn't totally sure about, but got right anyway.

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:48:38 +0000

Missed one. The taxes one that pacatrue mentioned.

By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:12:21 +0000

Missed 2 as well. The per person bit about taxes was ambiguous, so missed it.

By: unclejoe40

unclejoe40 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:50:48 +0000

i took this over at crooksandliars...i missed 5

i thought that the lincoln v douglas debate question was a bit unfair, as there were 7 debates and the answer could have been either of 2 of the answers

i also thought that the economic questions could be argued

but if any pol missed the basic civics questions, they ought to resign their seat immediatly

By: MJDaniels53

MJDaniels53 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:41:00 +0000

I got 31 of 33, for 93.94%. I missed questions 27 and 33. I have the same hope as NA.

By: NordicAngst

NordicAngst — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:00:38 +0000

Missed “of the people, for the people”

I hope reality isn't quite as bad as their study makes it out to be.