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average score 67
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82% ... I'm getting rusty
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I only got 58%. Thought I'd do better. Rats.

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96%
Still kicking myself about the ones I missed.
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96%
Still kicking myself about the ones I missed.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
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just as I hoped, 100%
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I had a feeling you would Idol1
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I only got 58%. Thought I'd do better. Rats.

yeahsure beavis yeahsure
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that is not bad hf
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96%
Still kicking myself about the ones I missed.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


So basically Astro is good at repeating everything that is told to him.

Hmm...
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62% GLP.

I HOPE YOU CAN DO BETTER.
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I got 102%!
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96%
Still kicking myself about the ones I missed.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


So basically Astro is good at repeating everything that is told to him.

Hmm...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 732844


I get your sarcastic inference, sock puppet. That he's good at repeating what is said to him, ergo that means he retains what he learns.

I'm not insulting the man's fucking intellect! We all know he's smart, hell, in the two plus years I've been hanging out on this board, I've lost count of how often this guy has come back to gloat about some doom not occurring 'as he predicted'.

With that in mind, standing in a field in West Texas in the middle of summer and saying it's probably not going to snow today doesn't make you a genius anymore than a score on a test of general scientific knowledge.

And for the record, I got 42 out of 50, which means I paid slightly more attention than peak of the bell that make up the readers of CSM.

And the questions I missed weren't that difficult, I just could remember the answer.

Relax. Dr. Astro is still the brightest of us on the short bus!

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 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


Right, but these are all very basic rote facts, most of which are useful knowledge within their own fields, some of which are more trivial but nonetheless basic.
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96%
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 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


Right, but these are all very basic rote facts, most of which are useful knowledge within their own fields, some of which are more trivial but nonetheless basic.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Like I said, I'm not insulting your intellect. I have no doubt you are intelligent person. I don't know if you are a man or woman.

You seem like a relatively intelligent person. I just find triviality annoying. I'm very Kinesthetic. I find rote memorization often tedious.

Case in point, I had a Gen Chem professor in college that had us memorize the Periodic Table. His reasoning: "What would you do if you were trapped on a desert island and needed to know a lanthide."

My response was: "If I'm trapped on a desert isle, what good is a fuckin' lanthide going to do me?"
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 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


So basically Astro is good at repeating everything that is told to him.

Hmm...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 732844


No, Astro has a scientific education which included, among other things, exposure to nearly every one of the facts tested by the quiz. Retention of those facts is not the limit of my scientific skills. The ability to retain knowledge is an asset, not a limitation. You cannot create and test a meaningful scientific hypothesis without at least some basic knowledge upon which to base the hypothesis.
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96%
Still kicking myself about the ones I missed.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


So basically Astro is good at repeating everything that is told to him.

Hmm...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 732844


No, Astro has a scientific education which included, among other things, exposure to nearly every one of the facts tested by the quiz. Retention of those facts is not the limit of my scientific skills. The ability to retain knowledge is an asset, not a limitation. You cannot create and test a meaningful scientific hypothesis without at least some basic knowledge upon which to base the hypothesis.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Agreed, however, this 'test' was skewed toward historical trivia and interspersed with useful themes at irregular intervals. Not all that scientific of a scientific test.
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By the way Astro, which two did you miss? Just curious if I got them right.
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 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


Right, but these are all very basic rote facts, most of which are useful knowledge within their own fields, some of which are more trivial but nonetheless basic.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Like I said, I'm not insulting your intellect. I have no doubt you are intelligent person. I don't know if you are a man or woman.

You seem like a relatively intelligent person. I just find triviality annoying. I'm very Kinesthetic. I find rote memorization often tedious.

Case in point, I had a Gen Chem professor in college that had us memorize the Periodic Table. His reasoning: "What would you do if you were trapped on a desert island and needed to know a lanthide."

My response was: "If I'm trapped on a desert isle, what good is a fuckin' lanthide going to do me?"
 Quoting: Grendel


Heh, that is quite trivial. I was fortunate in that the quiz focused on elements that are mostly common in my field of study. The only one outside that was radon, but radon's radioactivity property allowed me to make a correct deduction as needed for the answer. I agree about triviality being quite annoying. Still, questions related to force, energy, and other physical relationships are fundamental even if the human machinations to define their units could be considered "trivia" by some. It's true though that the quiz strayed quite frequently from testing knowledge of those units into downright trivia, like "which greek letter is used to symbolize the coefficient of friction."
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By the way Astro, which two did you miss? Just curious if I got them right.
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The one about the dinosaur and the one about triangles. Really kicking myself on the latter, I should have that terminology locked down.
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Why? Even if you scored a 100%, which I did not, it doesn't measure 'scientific aptitude' or real analytic reason. It just measures your ability store long term rote facts.
 Quoting: Grendel


So basically Astro is good at repeating everything that is told to him.

Hmm...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 732844


No, Astro has a scientific education which included, among other things, exposure to nearly every one of the facts tested by the quiz. Retention of those facts is not the limit of my scientific skills. The ability to retain knowledge is an asset, not a limitation. You cannot create and test a meaningful scientific hypothesis without at least some basic knowledge upon which to base the hypothesis.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Agreed, however, this 'test' was skewed toward historical trivia and interspersed with useful themes at irregular intervals. Not all that scientific of a scientific test.
 Quoting: Grendel


I agree, though honestly I wasn't keeping track of how much of it was "blast from the past" bullcrap and how much of it actually had every-day application. I liked the questions testing knowledge of basic physical units and relationships, and all but the Hubble question in the astronomy section were at least somewhat "practical" in nature (even the Hubble question would have been fine if they had just reversed it and tested knowledge of universal expansion instead). In general I agree though that a purely practical test of scientific literacy would be nice.
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I got 47% does this make me a genius? Considering that I have no formal education in science ;)
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Not working for me. I got the first question right the second time, but it fails to load after that. Pretty sure I would have scored at least in the 75th percentile.
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