{"id":1458,"date":"2009-09-23T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2013-02-23T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T03:50:41","slug":"science-knowledge-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2009\/09\/23\/science-knowledge-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Knowledge Quiz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/sciencequiz\/quiz\/index.php\">This quiz<\/a> was mentioned over on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/09\/21\/pew-pew-pew\/\">BadAstronomy<\/a> a couple of days ago.  It&#8217;s&#8230;stupidly easy.  I don&#8217;t know anything about the place offering it, beyond &#8216;they didn&#8217;t ask me for contact information&#8217;, so I&#8217;m going to pretend it&#8217;s not relevant.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI answered all the questions correctly, and it&#8217;s so easy that I don&#8217;t understand why anyone else could possibly get anything wrong.  Yet, Females, on average, answered fewer questions correctly than males, and people of my age group didn&#8217;t do quite as well as the next age group up.<\/p>\n<p>These are all basic, obvious questions.  Hell, most of them, you can get the answer just by having watched a lot of crappy TV &#8212; and I&#8217;m not even talking about the Science Channel.  What the hell is the problem here?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it could&#8217;ve been worse.  The numbers could&#8217;ve been lower.  And I think they probably would be if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that some people were probably driven away by the word &#8216;science&#8217;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Nevermind.  That doesn&#8217;t make things better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz was mentioned over on BadAstronomy a couple of days ago. It&#8217;s&#8230;stupidly easy. I don&#8217;t know anything about the place offering it, beyond &#8216;they didn&#8217;t ask me for contact information&#8217;, so I&#8217;m going to pretend it&#8217;s not relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-quiz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}