Test Your Voter News Knowledge (Pew Research)

10 out of 11 --- The question about where the gov't spends the most money threw me!   I'm amazed at the national average results!!! -- rfh

From: jrp Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 Subject:  Voter Test by "Pew Research"

URL: http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

Missed one - jrp

 I once read an article that stated the intelligence level of the majority of the voting public is of average or lesser intelligence.  Seems to fall in line with the Churchill quote. Have a wonderful day!

---

     This is a terrific and incredibly easy test.   And it shows results in a number of ways. It clearly indicates that the majority of Americans don't have a clue about what's going on in the world.  No wonder our politicians take such advantage of us.  

     It's astonishing that so many people got less than half right. These results say that 80% of the (voting) public doesn't have a clue, and that's pretty scary. There are no tricks here - just a simple test to see if you are current on your information.  This is quite good and the results are shocking.
     I believe it was Winston Churchill who opined that ". . . the biggest argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter . . ."
     Test your knowledge with 11 questions, then be ready to shudder when you see how others did and please share it with your email buddies.
Test your news IQ - Pew Research Center at the URL: http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

---

Demographic Breakdowns by Question

Below you'll find your question-by-question results and the percentage of each demographic group that answered the question correctly in our telephone survey.

		Gender		Education			Age
	Your Responses	Male	Female	High School or less	Some College	College Graduate	Ages 18-29	Ages 30-49	Ages 50+
This shows how many questions you answered correctly, compared with the average number of correct answers for different demographic groups. For example, men answered an average of 6.3 questions correctly.
	10	6.3	5.5	4.9	6.0	7.4	4.8	5.8	6.4

---

compares with other Americans who took the test in our national telephone survey:

Overall Score

---