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calendar   Sunday - June 19, 2011

You have got to be kidding me

Online Civics Test

All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of 13 different political and civic activities. These included, for example, registering to vote, signing a petition, contacting a public official, publishing a letter to the editor, and whether they have ever been elected to a government office.

Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. This sub-sample of officeholders yields a startling result: elected officials score lower than the general public. Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected. It would be most interesting to explore whether this statistically significant result is maintained across larger samples of elected officials.

71.4% of the people who took this test FAILED, even when “passing” was considered a 60% score.

A further 17.8% earned themselves a “D” by scoring 60% - 69%.

Only 0.8% of the more than 2500 people who took this test scored an “A”, by getting 90% or more of the questions correct.

As far as I’m concerned, I failed the test. Because I got more than 1 wrong. Yup, I got 2 wrong and got a 94. Well, maybe if they worded things differently I would have got the one question right, and I had the other question right but thought that my answer was too simple so I changed my mind ... and it’s been 26 years since I took a basic accounting class.

33 questions. 5 questions per page, 3 questions on the last page. Once you answer a page’s worth and hit “Next”, you can’t go back and change your answers. Hmmph, I just burned through the whole test too. I could have reviewed things one page at a time; that might have helped a little too.

A friend sent me the link. “This test is hard” she wrote. Really?

And here’s me, having taken only one single college level class in history, and that was one of those liberal rewrite “All white Americans are bad” classes. So damn near everything I know, I picked up in high school, from classes of 2 dozen or more kids, no teacher’s aides, no spiritual counseling, or any of that modern crap. Just school. I graduated 33 years ago, but I bet I’ve been involved in at least 11 of those 13 civic activities mentioned above. Ok, I’m wrong; I’ve only been involved in half of them. You can access both the Civic Engagement quiz and a short Civic Knowledge quiz from their homepage; the test you want to take is the “Full Civic Literacy Exam” button on the left side. My Civic Engagement level was “Sons of Liberty”. Oh boy!!

No names or personal info is collected. I have high expectations of all of my readers, but we won’t mock you too badly if you screw up and get a B. I don’t expect the test to take you more than 10 minutes at the most.

Hints? Read the questions carefully. Sometimes the answer isn’t what is best to do, but what has actually been done.

“Promote then as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”

President George Washington,
Farewell Address


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