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

[thewayne]

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.

Comments

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the process to overturn a veto would be a better question than 'what to do in a recession'.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Veto process definitely would be interesting, especially with the Dems unable to attain a supermajority. Of course, that assumes no defections from either party.