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To: ManyMoose who wrote (78135)	3/7/2010 6:12:55 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Not bad considering you whooped ass over recent college grads [57%] average. I would have scored 29 too if I hadn't psyched myself out on the term price controls on one question. The rest of the answer was correct to me, but the price control term did not fit. I should have known better as I wasn't happy with the answer I ultimately selected. Looking over it again when I had my wife take it, there were 2 other questions I thought they worded in a way to misdirect you to the wrong answer. I figure unless they changed the question, I would still get them wrong, so my 28 out of 33 is what it is. My better half scored 26 of 33 & she's not into current events like we are, so IMO, that's pretty good.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (78135)	3/7/2010 8:44:06 PM
From: greenspirit	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I got the same score! Dang, I missed a couple of easy ones. :-) I don't get #33. Did you see the summary? What a bunch of dunderheads! Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. This table shows the “knowledge gap” for each question: the difference between the percentage of common citizens who answered correctly and the percentage of officeholders who answered correctly. americancivicliteracy.org Here's the biggest problem! Both the people and policians don't know the basic definition of free enterprise. Definition of Free Enterprise 41.45 32.08 -9.37 Free Markets vs. Centralized Planning 16.25 10.71 -5.54