a Half dollar just screws up a cashier so badly...

I got three wrong, you beat me.

 

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27/33, 81.82%. That was a fun quiz.

 

I got them all ^_^ but in all fairness I'm a college student, and have taken a bunch of history and econ classes recently. In fact, I think every single question on that quiz was covered in classes I've taken last semester. Otherwise I wouldn't have done nearly as well. I also gotta admit, I almost missed the questions about "A government by the people, for the people...." and the Federal Reserve. Those were really hard.

 

I just realized, looking at the table for that test, it makes our elected officials look really stupid. But then I got to thinking, that's not at all a fair representation.

"Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. "

Of course the elected officials average is going to be lower, when only 164 people represent that category, as opposed to the 2,344 remaining nonofficials. In this sort of setting, one wrong answer from any official has a much greater negative impact on the overall averages, than one wrong answer from the nonofficial group. In fact, on many of those answers, the officials probably scored higher individually, just because the overall averages aren't laughably lower than the nonofficial group.

 

A random group of 164 is statistically equivalent to about 82,000 in the general population so that number of politically elected respondents probably represents the entire elected political population of the US at present.

 

Interesting quiz. 2 wrong, one because I was unfamiliar with the material in the question, and the other because I misread it. 93.94%

 

Yeah, Forkeh, what davidh said. Good going on the test. But you really need to take some courses on probabilities and familiarize yourself with concepts like samples and standard deviations and bell curves and that sort of boring stuff.

BTW, davidh, what did you get on the test? Do tell.

 

I showed my 14 year old daughter a '72 kennedy half-dollar, and she asked me if it was still good for currency. LMAO !!

 

Xmas last year I payed for a item with 4 $2.00notes the checkout person asked for the manger I just laugh and it note a counterfeit!
the manger came by and told the clerk it was real US cash.
This was a Target store too would thing they give tellers training in what is US money???

 

Sadly, I missed three. Reasons but no excuses.

 

My teacher did that in 10th grade too, but in an honors class, I got them all, but most of my class didn't even know 10 of the states.