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7:06 am on Monday, November 24, 2008

Yahoo News
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.

Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISI.

“It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISIs civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned,” said Josiah Bunting, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at ISI.

I think there are two positives we can look at from these results. One is that if you are worried about any sort of government conspiracy you can probably relax, they are really too dumb for that sort of thing. The second is that are smarter people arn’t going into government, which means they are probably doing more important things like actually making the everything work.

You can take the test yourself here.

I answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

3 Comments »

Comment by Gib

November 25, 2008 @ 5:57 am

Beat me - I only got 31 out of 33. Which apparently makes us both overqualified to run the country.

Comment by Karen Loutzenhiser

November 30, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

I’m dying to know which one you missed. I missed 3.

Comment by tsykoduk

December 2, 2008 @ 12:06 pm

Do’h!

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

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