Science Quiz: How many can you guess correctly?
Twelve Questions. Wide range of topics. How do you score? Are you in the six percent who got them all correct?
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This is pre High School level.
But I did go to Ethical Culture Fieldston, Class of 1978- where I took Bio, Chem, Physics (in the same lab as Oppenheimer) and AP Bio... I can't believe how ignorant most people are here in the US. Wonder how many know what glycolysis and oxydative phosphorylation are?
A better test would ask, "Compute, by hand, the Fourier transform of this set of data points." Or "Name at least half the first 94 chemical elements." Or "Illustrate the mean, standard deviation, skew and kurtosis in hand-drawn graphs. Compare these measures to the physics of rotational inertia in simple terms." Or, "Explain, without conducting experiments, why it is a dreadful idea to mix bleach with ammonia or with vinegar. Give some of the possible reactions."
Though I wonder....
I recall being taught that boiling water thing, but that was so many freaking years ago.
Missed a couple of others.
I was surprised. The questions seemed very easy.
I got 12/12.
I take issue with the questions about the graph showing a correlation between sugar and cavities. Their answer is it shows "the more sugar people eat, the more likely they are to get cavities." I understand what they mean, but this sounds like they're saying post hoc ergo propter hoc. We don't know from the graph if there is a third factor that causes people to eat sugar and get cavities. Maybe the people who eat more sugar also eat less of some vitamin, and the lack of that vitamin leads to cavities.
I know the scientific evidence is sugar causes cavities, but based only on that graph we cannot tell if eating more sugar makes someone more likely to get cavities.