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Interesting Test
This test is not an easy one.
The website reports that college professors
average about 55%.
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84.85% (28/33) Scary if college professors average 55%.
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100%. Guessed on the one about Plato, Socrates, etc.
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I missed two. 
The one about the greeks and government and taxes.
However, I had to think for a minute on the Roosevelt/SC question...my family still hates that administration. 
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87.88 .So far it looks like us bitter gun clinging religous types are more educated in our countrys history than the elite who are educating our youth,sad.
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I'd be able to guess the answers to the political / economic questions based on the fact that this test was created by the ISI.
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84% Looks like there's some professors that need to go back to school. TACC1
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90.91% - and it doesn't surprise me that most here did better than college professors or that college professors did so poorly. The ones I have had occasion to be acquainted with think pretty highly of themselves; most times without cause in my opinion . . . .
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But then, when I went to school they not only actually taught you, they expected you to learn (or repeat the grade until you did)
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78% I Surprised myself. It 's scary to know professors are at 55% on average.
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You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %
I'm not proud of my score, but it is better than the average college professor.
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Missed two ... sad commentary on our professors seeing as our collective average is spanking that of the elite educators.
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Same here. My mind started to wander during the taxes and philosophy portions...
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You gotta be kidding.I sucked at History and Civics and I still whooped the professors. 
I missed five and could have done better if I took my time.
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I missed four. Sad when a truck driver is smarter than a college professor. Heck, for $100k/yr, I'll take your kid with me for a few weeks in the fall and a few weeks in the spring and teach him at least as much as he'll learn in college. And we might stop and shoot along the way, too.
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Geeze, guess I didn't have my Wheaties this morning. 60.61%. Why couldn't they have asked about Herbie Hancock?
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75.76% Good thing I teach music.....................
Two of them I changed and shouldnt have 
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28 of 33
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
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87.88 .So far it looks like us bitter gun clinging religous types are more educated in our countrys history than the elite who are educating our youth,sad.
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If it makes you feel any better, I'm a high school teacher, and I only missed one, for 96.97%.
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If it makes you feel any better, I'm a high school teacher, and I only missed one, for 96.97%.
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Frailer,
How would your students fair on this test?
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Missed 3 for 91%, and I taught night classes at a community college (I was NOT a professor!).
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84.85%, not bad considering College Professors do 55% ????? Wow !!!
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27 out of 33 for me, 82.+. It's been a lot of years out of civics class.
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Can't believe you bunch of red necks are smarter than college profs. Sure would like to see what Obama would do. I only got 29 of 33, so at the bottom of this group.
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And, those I missed I just didn't remember the answers they gave me back in the 50's.................
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That's fare, not fair ...
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