Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Or a US elected official?

On civic knowledge?

"A test on civic knowledge given to elected officials proved that they are slightly less knowledgeable than the uninformed people who voted them into office. Elected officials scored a 44 percent while ordinary citizens managed an amazing 49 percent on the 33 questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. "It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISI's civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned," said Josiah Bunting, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at ISI. The three branches of government aren't the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?"

I overthought a couple of questions, I scored: You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

Average score for this quiz during December: 75.0%
Average score: 75.0%

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/21/1458214

It would be amusing to require anyone running for office to take this test and post their scores.

I really wish LJ has a "reply all" to comments

I'm not quite sure how they'd structure it.

Anyway, some further thoughts on the civics quiz. I wonder how much political or party ideology or religious ideology might influence how you respond to question? Would a confirmed Donkey or Elephant be more likely to miss certain questions?

Something to ponder, or perhaps for a psych/soc/poli sci student to do a study of.

A rock music video -- shot with a still frame digital camera!

The video was shot with a Nikon D200 DSLR. 45,000 images were taken for a 4 minute video.

The music isn't bad, the video is interesting. The methodology, I find, is rather intriguing, being a still photographer.

Watch on YouTube

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/along-with-his.html