You Follow The News, But Do You Remember It?

Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Citizen Journalist

G. Robert M. Miller in Politics | 13 comments | 261 views

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If you've got five minutes and would like to get a feel for how well you follow the news, read on... The Pew Research Center has got a fun little quiz for you.

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The Pew Research Center issued a free News IQ Quiz today, July 18 2008 - which can be accessed here.

The quiz is comprised of 12 questions which try to give you a feel for how well you follow the news, with an emphasis on American politics.

At the end of the quiz your results will be tabulated and compared with the average of all others who have taken the quiz to date.

"You'll also be able to compare your News IQ with the average scores of men and women; with college graduates as well as those who didn't attend college; with people who are your age as well as with younger and older (people)."

I scored 10 out of 12, how about you? (with errors on question 3 and 11)

GRMM

(PS - It really only takes a couple minutes)

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by KJ (momentsintime)
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I got 9 out of 12. Need to study more. :)

Interesting story.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Susan Duclos
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Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 12 of the 12 possible questions along with approximately 3% of the public.

Nice little test although I swore I got the Dow one wrong and simply guessed so really it should have been 11.

For those of us that write quite a bit about politics, the questions should have been harder. But interesting anyway.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by G. Robert M. Miller
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KJ - by my calculations, that still makes you 3 questions smarter than the average; don't worry about studying too hard...

Sue - If it were possible to score 13 on this 12 question quiz and I were a betting man, I'd put my money on you... and yes, I would like a longer, harder quiz too, I almost included it in the main part of the article, bu then it would have been an opinion piece ha...

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Susan Duclos
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@ G. Robert M. Miller
KJ - by my calculations, that still makes you 3 questions smarter than the average; don't worry about studying too hard...

Sue - If it were possible to score 13 on this 12 question quiz and I were a betting man, I'd put my money on you... and yes, I would like a longer, harder quiz too, I almost included it in the main part of the article, bu then it would have been an opinion piece ha...

Thanks. I think they shouldn't have made it multiple choice. I never would have guessed correctly on the Dows question, no way.

Good piece though, interesting find. Thanks.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by G. Robert M. Miller
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That would have been a far more interesting study eh? They could have kept all answers and then compared those results... That would have been interesting (and probably pretty funny too)

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Susan Duclos
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@ G. Robert M. Miller
That would have been a far more interesting study eh? They could have kept all answers and then compared those results... That would have been interesting (and probably pretty funny too)

Yeah. Looking at the url they offered, what I was most surprised at was that so few people knew who the Senate Majority leader was. That actually shocked me with the amount he has been in the news.

Erased the answer....sorry, don't want to mess anyone elses results up.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by G. Robert M. Miller
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Yeah -- coal plants, land sales, support of Barack - he certainly has been talked about a lot, and that's just stuff off the top of my head. I think the reason may be that he often is mentioned only as Senator Harry Reid, not majority leader; or that because he isn't running for another term, people have forgotten about him... Then again, it could be that people just don't register what they read or hear...

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Whitdawg
#8

'You correctly answered 9 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 76% of the general public.'

And Im British ... I think I must read too many of Sues articles ;-)

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by G. Robert M. Miller
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hahaha - wrong! you can never read too many of Sue's articles.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Susan Duclos
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@ G. Robert M. Miller
hahaha - wrong! you can never read too many of Sue's articles.

Ya'll are sweet :o) Heads big enough though. P~~~~~

Well downtime for me, got a few things to do, hope to catch you later.

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 by Jamie Longley
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10 out of 12, too...

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Posted Jul 19, 2008 by Sykos Masters
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Very interesting indeed ... I got 100%. Guess all that subliminal sleep listening of CNN is paying off ...lol.

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Posted Jul 19, 2008 by Debra Myers (skyangel)
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Interesting quiz...and I didn't do as well as I expected to! :(

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