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I got a perfect score as well. I was looking through the demographic stats and was displeased to see they didn’t list results by Republican v. Democrat, just age groups, male v. female, education level. Weird that they asked about party affiliation but haven’t produced the results from it.
I answered them all right as well. I can understand a person missing a question here or there, but I’d hope no one is getting less than six of these right. None of these are particularly challenging, and in fact most seem to be among some of the more commonly covered topics in news today.
As an interesting side note, while News Consumers at Fox News only fell at the 50th percentile on average, those who watched O’Reilly came in at the 58th, and Limbaugh came in at the 60th, higher than any other individual source listed (major newspaper websites came in at the 63rd percentile).
9 for 9.
9 for 9. The 4% is a sad, but not unexpected, statement about how uninformed the public is.
8-for-9, 91st percentile.
“Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 9 of the 9 possible questions along with approximately 4% of the public. You did better than 96% of the general public.”
Looks to me like Pew has a hidden “push poll” for Clinton
You and me, Phil. 8 of 9.
9 as well. If I can answer every one correctly, the test is too easy.
I took this the other day, linked from a non political site. I also got 9 outta 9. Way too easy.
I got a real IQ test once — I scored 185.
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