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27 question test - HELP

Started by TruTenacity, December 22, 2010, 04:41:04 PM

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TruTenacity

December 22, 2010, 04:41:04 PM
I just received an RWVA e-mail in which a gentleman writes:

QuoteLadies & Gentlemen;

Could you please forward me a copy of the 27 question test in which a national sample of American adults scored an average of 44%?

I would like to see how I score on this test.

I am also considering attending the April 16-17 session in D/FW Texas...but I'm interested in knowing how much -- or how little -- I know about my US History.

Many thanks

Does anyone know what he's talking about?

If anyone has the test please post it here.

Thanks.

TT
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MacMcM

#1
December 22, 2010, 04:52:25 PM
He may have confused us with this organization:
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

It's a 33 question test, but this sounds like what he is referring to... still not AS.

Mac

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Fred

#2
December 22, 2010, 05:01:49 PM

    You guys!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

    You should read the RWVA Appleseed Home Page once in while ;D - and while there, check out http://www.appleseedinfo.org/appleseed-mission.html, specifically, the report cited about half-way down the page, which is located at http://www.americanrevolutioncenter.org/sites/default/files/ARCv27_web.pdf


     :)     :)     :)
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MacMcM

#3
December 22, 2010, 05:06:40 PM
 :-[
" 'Cuz truly, at the end of the day - the piece of cloth means nothing.  It's who is standing beside you." West
"If I thought even for a second that it was impossible I would be doing other things." GopherBoy

Justin

#4
December 22, 2010, 05:08:17 PM
Disturbing! If these figures are correct... Then again what type of person takes this quiz?

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html
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TruTenacity

#5
December 22, 2010, 05:09:14 PM
Someone just gave me the job of reading the Instructor manual and Shoot Boss manual to find an answer to a different question.  Once I was done with that reading I might have had time to read elsewhere to find even more answers to questions.

I went the easy route this time and asked for a fish.  Fred the helpful comes through again!

Thanks, Sir!

TT
"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

MacMcM

#6
December 22, 2010, 05:22:39 PM
To answer the gentleman directly, here is the link to the test:

http://americanrevolutioncenter.org/what_do_you_know

and yes, I passed it  ..:..

Mac

Thanx, Fred for the info!
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"If I thought even for a second that it was impossible I would be doing other things." GopherBoy

gpbbiker

#7
December 22, 2010, 06:03:20 PM
Taking this test is a little like shooting your 1st AQT! I thought I was a rifleman, but.............. :-[
I though I knew Revolutionary War History, but ...... :-[

I passed, but I was given a lesson in humility in the process! :)
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#8
December 22, 2010, 06:47:13 PM
Quote from: Justin on December 22, 2010, 05:08:17 PM
Disturbing! If these figures are correct... Then again what type of person takes this quiz?

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html
Only the sickest among us. I just took it...
84.9% BTW.
8)
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asminuteman

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December 22, 2010, 08:15:11 PM Last Edit: May 16, 2012, 05:27:20 PM by asminuteman
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Justin

#10
December 22, 2010, 09:22:45 PM
That was kind of my point. The people on this forum should/will do well, and yes it makes our representatives look bad. But what will the average pop culture United States citizen score? I'd hate to speculate, and honestly, I don't even want to know. It just pushes the point harder, we have a lot of work to do to wake the sleeping United States citizen.
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Leonidas

#11
December 22, 2010, 10:48:56 PM
Quote from: MacMcM on December 22, 2010, 04:52:25 PM
He may have confused us with this organization:
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
87% for me, lol and all my conservative friends tell me that I don't know real history.
Justin, I agree. The sheeple of this country need to wake up. If they leave their governance to "radicals" like me who knows what could happen.....
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lprgcfrank

#12
December 22, 2010, 11:14:54 PM
Only missed 1 - and I should have gotten that one.
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]

AFTERMATH

#13
December 23, 2010, 04:41:12 PM
Quote from: Justin on December 22, 2010, 05:08:17 PM
Disturbing! If these figures are correct... Then again what type of person takes this quiz?

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html

31.....
Would have been 32, but I couldn't remove my own personal bias from question #30......
Quote from: Fred on December 22, 2010, 05:01:49 PM

    You guys!  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

    You should read the RWVA Appleseed Home Page once in while ;D - and while there, check out http://www.appleseedinfo.org/appleseed-mission.html, specifically, the report cited about half-way down the page, which is located at http://www.americanrevolutioncenter.org/sites/default/files/ARCv27_web.pdf


     :)     :)     :)
26 :wb: :wb: :wb:
I got dumber!  Last time I took it I scored perfect....
Perhaps, I should go back to sckool. ++)
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CSHR

#14
December 23, 2010, 09:33:30 PM
Yikes, what a test  :wb:  ~~:)  :bow:

IF I'd of shut up and just listened to the voice in my head instead of 'the voices', I wouldn't of talked myself out of #26 and so missed one.....once you have your NPOA trust it  ..:..

I would speculate the results were the evidence of being 'older' and thus having a different type of education....we were expected to know this kind of thing....and I have always loved to read.

CSHR


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NeilR

#15
December 25, 2010, 11:02:33 AM
Quote from: Fred on December 22, 2010, 05:01:49 PM
You should read the RWVA Appleseed Home Page once in while ;D - and while there, check out http://www.appleseedinfo.org/appleseed-mission.html, specifically, the report cited about half-way down the page, which is located at http://www.americanrevolutioncenter.org/sites/default/files/ARCv27_web.pdf

I admit I have not read that carefully  before.  Now that I have, I would like to suggest a change in wording to correct the math on the page.  Instead of:

QuoteEighty-three percent of surveyed adults scored an average of forty-four percent - a failing score.

I would suggest:

QuoteThe vast majority of surveyed adults failed the test.

because if the average is 44%, then that includes the 83% who failed as well as the 17% who passed, which means that the average of the 83% who failed must be less than 44%.  In fact, if you do the math, then it cannot be any higher than 40%.  Yikes!  :o

To whom should I send a PM with this suggestion?
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OnlyHitsCount

#16
January 07, 2011, 01:06:40 AM
I think that this thread has skewed their averages... Jan avg has been raised to 70%!  Personally, I scored 85%.   :wall:

I shouldn't have rushed it.  This is good company, hope you'll let me stick around anyway.    ???

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Sly223

#17
January 11, 2011, 12:06:02 PM
100 percent the second time #)
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