Poll Cat
Pew has this poll on your news IQ. I, along with 2% of those taking the test, got all answers correct. Though, I confess, I made an educated guess on the obesity question. This, and I don’t watch TV news or read any newspapers regularly. I get my news from blogs and other internet sources.
The score distribution is pretty sad, kinda like Leno’s jay-walking.
June 23rd, 2011 at 9:43 am
Missed one: the obesity question. I don’t have a TeeWee or get the paper, and get all of my news through blogs and other internet sources as well.
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:18 am
All correct.
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:46 am
Like you, I got them all correct. And I also don’t watch the news. The distribution is sad, but not surprising.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:08 am
11/11 Interesting distribution.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:17 am
11/11. Don’t have broadcast or cable or satellite. Haven’t watched a “news” program or read a “news” paper in 20 years. As Jennifer said: sad, but not surprising distribution.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:27 am
10/11. I thought we were paying more on debt interest than on Medicare. I guess that’s still a few years off.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:31 am
11/11
Put me in the same category as y’all. I don’t watch the news, read any newspapers, and get my news from blogs and other internet sites.
One caveat to that, I have been known to have Fox daytime on as background noise. At least until Megyn Kelly got pregnant and started flaking out.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
I missed the medicare one too… I thought more money was spent servicing the debt – isn’t Medicare a part of the debt?
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:52 am
I was in the 7% (the good 7%). Glad I’m not alone on the Medicare thing. Never watch a thing, just read the blogs. Must say something.
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:04 pm
9/11 Obesity, Medicare got me
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:05 pm
11/11 , guessed on the obesity question.
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:43 pm
11/11 Guessed on obesity
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I think they meant actual current spending, not future liabilities incurred.
June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00 pm
11/11 guessed on obesity, and was spoiled for the debt question here. Never watch news and rarely go to MSM sites unless looking at a specific article link.
June 23rd, 2011 at 1:13 pm
11/11. I thought they were pretty easy. I can’t believe that the distribution is that bad. I guess us bitter clingers aren’t the gap-tooth hillbillies that the media makes us out to be.
June 23rd, 2011 at 1:32 pm
10/11 Guessed wrong on the obesity question.
June 23rd, 2011 at 4:59 pm
11/11. The obesity one wasn’t hard, the choices were 10/25/50. I knew it was more than 10%, less than 50%, must be 25%. (If I had to guess without any choices, I would have said 20%.) I’m pretty sure around 50%-60% are categorized as overweight, however (which includes the 25% obese).
Medicare+medicaid (they should have been more specific) is presently 23% of the budget, Social Security is 20%, war/defense is 20%, while interest is only 6%. We are drowning in the costs of keeping people healthy. (A good proportion of the DoD’s budget is healthcare-related as well.)
June 23rd, 2011 at 6:01 pm
10/11.
I thought we spent more on servicing the debt than Medicare; I see I had some good company.
June 23rd, 2011 at 6:11 pm
11/11. Guessed on obesity too.
June 23rd, 2011 at 8:18 pm
10/11, got bit on the debt question.
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:53 pm
11/11. Don’t you wish a score of six or better was required to vote?
June 24th, 2011 at 2:45 am
11/11 and yet another guess on obesity.
I watch FOX News. Other than that, it’s the Internet for info, including their Web site.