[Closed] Sciencologists: can you pass the Christian Science Monitor test?

Turns out I'm really stoopid

- although I think I did pretty well ('bout 5 wrong), I did the whole thing with noscript on so my score is " " 🙄

got 74% and was a bit sloppy on another 10% that I knew the answer too, but wasnt concentrating.

Fairly happy with that since my astronomical knowledge is lousy.

Huge, huge huge and unfair weighting to space knowledge IMHO. this helped me greatly though[ logarithm WTF is one of those?]- got them all right and 2 were guesses and the last one is a sneaky trick question bit it did not full me
41/50 or 92 % - well I said my maths was poor 😉

80%.

A few lucky guesses in the chemistry questions which isn't my strong point.

Huge, huge huge and unfair weighting to space knowledge

Space knowledge is cool. Thumbs up from me.

Yeah my astronomy let me down. As did my ignorance of the periodic table (if it's all written in a nice table, why would I memorise it? 😉 )

I'm most pleased by my ability to remember e, 20 years after I finished my degree.

I love:

e^i.pi=-1

I like the way I referred to astronomy as space knowledge whilst saying how good I was at it 😳
I still remember E from my Uni days but I think we may be discussing different things 😯

What, no questions on the science behind psychiatry?

there's science behind psychiatry ? 😯

Working through it now.

Just got my first wrong answer, #17. Bloody chemistry.

You answered 37 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 74%.

Slightly disappointed with that. Looking back over my answers, of the 13 I got wrong, 7 I did actually know and the other 6 I didn't have a clue.

Cool little quiz, thanks for posting.

72. 2 wrong were silly where I didn't read the question, 4 or 5 were educated guesses about the the words, rather than knowing the science, and a couple were lucky guesses, balancing out the unlucky guesses! (meiosis and mitosis indeed!)

cheers for the link!

74%. Quite pleased.

Stopped after the first question because even at this time of night I have better things to do than wait for the page to refresh to give me a little green tick, then again to move on to the next question.

Byezeebye!

I got 112% out of 50.

49/50 😀
Admittedly about a quarter were educated guesses, got the cloud one wrong.

34/50, but started skimming the questions at about 15 when I realise there were 50 - you expect my attention span to last that long?

When I got the question about the value of e wrong (didn't really read the question, just saw 3.14 in the answer and figured that must be it) I kinda gave up altogether.

84% - wow, I actually remember some stuff from school!! 🙂

Rachel

Questions seem quite well defined until

9. What is the heaviest noble gas?

hmmm... doesn't that depend how much of it you're weighing?

As a pedant I gave up at that point.

100%. there's a secret option for 'Jesus did it', which is right every time. Christian science quizzes put the fun into fundamentalism.

Duh. I always get Scientology and Christian Science muddled up. About the same level of nuttiness, though.

there's a secret option for 'Jesus did it'

I did like some of the answer options:
"How old is the universe?
A) 6015 years?..."

Woo! 84%, not bad for someone with a mickey-mouse degree in spelling.

34/50 68%

92%

with some educated guesses on the biology questions.

and some confusion around the moons of saturn/jupiter...

Hadn't a clue on the biology questions :/ As a geologist though, I'm glad I got all the rock/planetary ones right 🙂 39/50

64%, some outright guesses and a couple i got wrong i really should have known

Woo hoo - finally someone admits to a lower score than me! 😀

Well done D0NK.

got 74% and was a bit sloppy on another 10% that I knew the answer too, but wasnt concentrating.

Fairly happy with that since my astronomical knowledge is lousy.

+1 8)

🙂 well as I've said many times before I'm not a scientist

I'm an IT monkey
(if they'd had questions about how to fix print spooler errors I'd have scored more - can you guess the answer to that one?)

I got all the answers correct except that one. If they had worded the question as "Approximately how old do the majority of scientists today theorize the Earth to be?" then I would have gotten 100%. As it is I answered with 6015 years since that is the closest real answer that the evidence supports (if you take into account the rapid decay of carbon 14 under high electromagnetic bombardment right around 2300 BC).

Er, you lot do know that Scientology and Christian Science are different, right...?

It pays to have a rounded knowledge, not just science.

😉

As did my ignorance of the periodic table (if it's all written in a nice table, why would I memorise it? )

I'd argue that the periodic table ones were fairly basic stuff which is fundamental to chemistry - not like I remember the periodic table, but you could answer those without that (so long as you understood the concept of the periodic table and had good fundamental knowledge of the elements).

I got bored but wasn't doing well as physics and chemistry I pretty much didn't do.

I gave up at question 2, because it was about biology. I thought it was a science quiz?

76%

Must use this brain of mine for something worthwhile. 8)

Only got the Jupiter moon one cos of a Blur song though...

88%, not bad for a builder eh?

FunkyMonkey, you've just made me look bad...

well as I've said many times before I'm not a scientist
I'm an IT monkey

Likewise. Didn't see much coverage of Computer [i]Science[/i] in there, which is my actual degree 😉

Er, you lot do know that Scientology and Christian Science are different, right...?

Err.. yes.

("Sciencologists" in the thread title was meant as a reference to the commonly used jib at science types on here - not a slexydic attempt at spelling Scientologists)

I'd argue that the periodic table ones were fairly basic stuff which is fundamental to chemistry

I'm sure it is. That was probably what tripped me up 😀

I gave up at question 2, because it was about biology. I thought it was a science quiz?

When did biology stop being a science?!

46/50 here. Bow down to my (almost) winningness. 😉

martinhutch - Member

What, no questions on the science behind psychiatry?

....and yet I still got 70% 😉

Loving the '6014 years' options in the geology/big bang questions 😆

I thought that for me the maths/mechanics ones would be a breeze, but i did worse on them, whereas astronomy/chemistry (which I really know nothing about in the grand scheme of things) seemed to be much more like 'trivial pursiuts' standard questions. ❓

70% All the space ones and biology ones did for me.
Still remember the day at school when the Biology teacher drew something on the board, asked what it was, and I said that it was an orgasm.

Still remember the day at school when the Biology teacher drew something on the board, asked what it was, and I said that it was an orgasm.

Your teacher drew a splat?

82%. But then I am a scientist.