Comments on: Time to take the science quiz https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Bert Chadick https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491490 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491490 46 out of 50, but I spent my life as a shoe repairman, breathing glue fumes. Fun tho.

]]> By: Richard Chapman https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491489 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:36:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491489 41/50

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that most visitors here posted good scores. Educated laypeople are the best deterrent against organized ignorance.

]]> By: Daniel J. Andrews https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491488 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:33:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491488 As others have said, ran out of patience after 10 questions (got them all right so off to a good start). A poorly designed quiz, perhaps designed that way so the site obtains multiple hits???????? Put 10 questions per page, all answerable, and let me see the answers after I’ve submitted, not after each flipping answer.

]]> By: Shannon https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491487 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:51:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491487 37/50…missed a lot of the physics-related questions and some of the planetary questions regarding names of moons, etc.

]]> By: Dave R https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491486 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:44:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491486 44/50.

Got 4 easy space/physics ones wrong but made up for it with about the same number of lucky guesses in the biology ones. Didn’t know the catalytic converter or the rock types.

Also what they^ said about the site design.

]]> By: Grumpy1942 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491485 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:09:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491485 36 of 50. But then, I dropped out of high school in the 11th grade.

]]> By: Phillip Moon https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491484 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:47:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491484 I am sorry to say I only got 60% (30/50). Then again, I have had no chemistry, math and I don’t talk, physics and I do best with explanations for non-scientists. In high school, my last year of science was a half semester in my first year.

I’m just a science buff, and if I needed to use any of the information from or relating to the quiz, I would go to people who are scientists, rather than buffs. That’s why I read all these blogs by scientist.

]]> By: Don https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491483 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:18:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491483 48/50 missed coefficient of friction and -nimbus and had to guess on one other.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491482 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:30:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491482 46 out of 50, but it was a while ago so I don’t remember the questions. The ones I missed were all nomenclature ones. I knew the science, just not the terminology.

Very poor usability. Also, what is the CSM doing talking about science? They deny most of medicine.

]]> By: L Delaney https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491481 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:22:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/23/time-to-take-the-science-quiz/#comment-491481 41 out of 50. Many stupid mistakes. It was fun taking the quiz but the design of the site was rather pathetic. Took too long to complete and I thought of quitting several times.

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