<p>News quiz:</p>
<p><a href=“Publications | Pew Research Center”>http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/</a></p>
<p>Article about how various demographics of Americans did on the quiz:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.people-press.org/2014/10/02/from-isis-to-unemployment-what-do-americans-know/”>http://www.people-press.org/2014/10/02/from-isis-to-unemployment-what-do-americans-know/</a></p>
<p>I got 12 out of 12 on the Pew quiz-- wow, I’m the 1% 
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<p>12 of 12 here too. I’m guessing the CC parent forum isn’t going to be representative of the US population though.</p>
<p>I get most of my news from the CC parent forum</p>
<p>Got 11/12 right. Wrong guessing interest on national debt being greater than social security $. Always hearing in news U.S. will run out of money for social security in few years…figured we’ll never run out of debt!</p>
<p>I got 9 out of 12 and I quite proud! Have never watched the news until recently. My 17 yr old D took up watching the news for her Lenten promise last year to become more informed about her world - she now watches religiously every night - guess some of it is rubbing off on me! 9 out of 12 was still 86% better than most of the quiz takers (of my age/sex???) </p>
<p>10 out of 12. I couldn’t remember the fed reserve chairman and I didn’t know the poverty level. I guessed too high.</p>
<p>11 out of 12 I can’t keep Sunni and Shia muslims straight. </p>
<p>11/12 I can’t keep Shia and Sunni’s apart either, but figured out which countries were friendly with each other and got it right. Got tripped up by whether it was Social Security or the National Debt that we spend $$ on/</p>
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<p>I got tripped up on the SS question, but because I thought they were tricking us since it technically comes from its own fund and not general taxes. I thought they were checking to see if responders knew this.</p>
<p>And I guessed high on the living below poverty level stats. I was glad to see I missed that one to be honest.</p>
<p>It kind of scares me that some people don’t know a few of these otherwise - esp looking at the stats and knowing they could be voting.</p>
<p>11/12 here Thought the poverty rate was higher than 15%. Wrong! I am a self-confessed news junkie so would have been disappointed if I didn’t score as high as I did.</p>
<p>Same as lizard and mathmom - 11/12 and missed on the national debt. I read the ChicagoTribune and Time magazine, and the online headlines - and these boards! </p>
<p>Come on, there is at least ONE person out there who didn’t score nearly perfect on this besides me…what is this - CC-parent genius edition!!! :)</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t reading news web sites be much more information-dense than watching news on TV? It would also give access to more different news outlets than the smaller number available on TV.</p>
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It means everyone else here besides you needs to get a life ;)</p>
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<p>Well… I thought the bulk of the questions were super easy. I was expecting far more difficult…</p>
<p>Perhaps it means I need to get a life!</p>
<p>If the OP had posted a pop culture quiz I’d have forfeited before even starting knowing that any I got correct on that was pure guesswork.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter which way is the “best” way to get the news - it’s the selection of a method that you are willing to participate in (whether reading the newspaper, a magazine, CNN on line, or the nightly news) and stay interested - especially at age 17 - that matters. Her mind and eyes are on a computer and in books all day at school and for a few hours after school doing homework - the fact that she chooses to spend 30 mins each night with David Muir (she was CRUSHED when Diane Sawyer left!) is admirable to me! </p>
<p>I’m guessing others have taken this test and not scored in the perfect-near perfect range. Just goes to show that even as adults we feel judged and take personal our “grades” and performance on quizzes such as these. </p>
<p>Kudos to those that scored high! Kudos to anyone who took the quiz and learned something new! It’s all good. 
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<p>I don’t watch the news or read much of the paper, I find my stress level stays lower. H gets stressed out enough for both of us.
I do pay attention to local and environmental issues.
I missed the question on Shia/ Sunni Muslims, Social Security and unemployment.
So considering I know more about last nights setlists in Tulsa than headlines, not bad!</p>
<p>I got 10/12, missed the same ones as Creekland (post #10) for the same reasons. My primary source of news is NPR. </p>