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

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)

Gotcha.

(But, for the rest of you. "Elron" Hubbard in the red corner, Mary Baker Eddy in the blue corner.)

82%. But then I am a scientist.

I'd have expected scientists to only get a handful right, given they generally know nothing about anything outside their narrow field 😈

When did biology stop being a science?!

It's practically a humanities subject 😉

It's practically a humanities subject

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46/50 (92%).

and that's not how you spell Sulphur 🙂

and that's not how you spell Sulphur

edit or indeed, correct 😳

and that's not how you spell Sulphur

Yes it is.

... the IUPAC adopted the spelling sulfur in 1990, as did the Royal Society of Chemistry Nomenclature Committee in 1992.[43] The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for England and Wales recommended its use in 2000,[44] and it now appears in GCSE exams.[45] The Oxford Dictionaries note that "In chemistry... the -f- spelling is now the standard form in all related words in the field in both British and US contexts."

88%, not bad for a builder eh?

42/50 = 84%

A couple of (educated) guesses that I got right balanced out by making a couple of silly mistakes that I knew were wrong as soon as I submitted. And one wrong answer was a meteorology question, so that doesn't count.

Not too bad though.

we all know maths is pure it is just a shame it is incomplete * 😉

Without observation it is also pretty useless in scientific terms as the Higgs Boson has just shown - ie we need evidence beyond the "pure" to "know".

I may have taken your humorous point a little to seriously 😳

* see Godel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

Dammit, three wrong, that's 94% 🙂

Admittedly there were a couple of guesses in there.

And the periodic table questions all had other clues in them or even outright giveaways - I haven't got the table memorised and I only got one of those wrong.

I got the surface gravity one wrong.. picked Saturn as I knew it was the least dense, so if you presumed it actually had a surface I'm sure it would come out low.

The halogen one - lack of latin skillz.

And the cloud one - just didn't know.

I'd believe everyone's %ages more if the questions were't multiple choice, and you had to actually know the answer without a prompt or the chance to guess ...

and that's not how you spell Sulphur

Yes it is.

...

Actually, I still prefer 'brimstone'.

I knew the majority of them without needing multiple choice, to be honest.

88%. Misread one question, and some guesses on the Space Science field that failed to materialize.

72% should have done better

96%. Cloud one got me too

Am I in the lead then?

EDIT: no

72%, but the wording of a lot of the questions gave it away- there's one that asks what has an atomic weight of x (no idea) and a name derived from the latin for something (one obvious candidate).

Am I in the lead then?

Nope [b]sas[/b] claimed to have got 49/50.

I nominate him Chief Scientishalist.

You can be his Understudy.

Edit: ooh richmtb beat you too. You are here by demoted to Under-Understudy.

Only 80% for me sans any googling, which is a bit poor considering I'm actually a scientist. In my defence I've never studied any biology!

I'd believe everyone's %ages more if the questions were't multiple choice, and you had to actually know the answer without a prompt or the chance to guess ...

I'd believe everyone's %ages more if they were lower, it's like watching an episode of the apprentice.... bullshit bingo anyone?

72%.

Not bad for someone who teaches colouring in and watching TV as their day job.

slainte 😆 rob

Oh, my score was actually below 50% btw - I'm not a scientist but I did get A* in my dual award science GCSE. 🙂

Nice link, but I reckon one of the questions does not have the correct answer as an option.
So I'm giving the quiz a score of 98%. 😉

Nice link, but I reckon one of the questions does not have the correct answer as an option.

Controversial! Which one?

78% here. some of them were wild guesses and some I answered to hastily but glad I got more than I expected!

Graham S
I've been weighing up whether they are wrong or not, and tbh it's not clear 100%. Its a badly worded, leading question that leaves interpretation open. Could be described more as a "[i]wrong question[/i]" than a "[i]wrong answer[/i]".
But in the interests of controversy: 23.

But in the interests of controversy: 23.

Ah.

23. Noting how light from objects that are moving away from the observer tend to shift to the red end of the spectrum, what scientist first established that the universe is expanding?

You're going to argue that it was that Belgian bloke instead (as mentioned on a thread the other day)? Fair enough, though if you know that then you know the answer they want.

Yup, the Belgian bloke dunnit 🙂
But you are right, there was an obvious answer they were looking for.

84% 🙂

56% - happy with that for a Clasics grad who dropped science at 5th form.

There were some serious freebie points on offer if you studied ancient greek ! Would have done worse without that. Pallas Athena is Greek Lit 101.

There were some serious freebie points on offer if you studied ancient greek

I was wondering how many of those with really good scores had studied greek/latin.

86% Silly mistakes including forgetting how to divide on the nanometer question.

jebus was a chippie.

yeah, but he couldn't fix two bits of wood together if his life depended on it

Strong smell off bullshit on this thread! 😀

24/50

82. The shame.

88%- go me! I made mistakes in the units type questions. And the age of the Universe is not 14 trillion years- oops, silly me.

90%..............but my job title does have the word "Scientist" and "Chief" in it...* and I'm crap at astronomy*

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62%... meh

oh dear i score 52% (26 out of 50)

and a lot of those were lucky guesses 😳

Snap...

52%. But if I had thought a bit more about one or two it would probably have been around 60%. It's been a long time since my last physics lesson 😳