Civics lesson

[james_davis_nicoll]

US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.

I got 33 of 33 questions right.

Take the test yourself

Nicked from autopope.

In unrelated news, Chinese man learns that real pandas are less cuddly than they look. Happily, aside from emotional damage the panda was unharmed.

Comments

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

77.9% is what I got, as it happens. And for a dirty foreigner who never had to study US History, I'm proud to be well ahead of US congresscritters.

[cantkeepsilent.livejournal.com]

Even without the controversial economics questions, this is where the ISI shows itself to be without credibility. It quizzes 2500 random people, isolates the results of "self-identified elected officials", conflates that with "political leaders" in their press release, and leaves the reader to conclude that our congressfolk and governors are idiots instead of two or three people on their local water boards or zoning commissions.