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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 03/08/2007 : 10:46:50
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The on-line USA Today notes that Americans get an 'F' in religion. Surprising, given that so many people consider themselves religious.
The include a test to see how much the reader knows. I took it (it doesn't take too long) and scored approximately a 68 (they don't give the answers so I'm not sure if I'm right on all of them; I have questions on two that, if right, get me a 72). I don't know much about Buddhism or Catholicism's "seven sacrements" or I would have done much better. Alas.
How did YOU do?
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 11:00:46 [Permalink]
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I got a 74 - Is that passing?
They do give answers, you have to hover your mouse over the question and the answer pops up. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 11:36:31 [Permalink]
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| Thanks for the tip re the answers. So I went one for one on my two 'unkowns' but one of those was a two-pointer so I still can add four to my total score and get a 72. That's a low C. Not great, but I still think it's OK-- it's not an F at least! |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 11:46:18 [Permalink]
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Depends on the grading system. In my school, a 72 would be a middling D.
94-100 = A (4.0)
93-90 = A- or B+ (3.5)
85-89 = B (3.0)
75-84 = C (2.0)
70-74 = D (1.0)
0-69 = F (0.0) |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 11:49:04 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Depends on the grading system. In my school, a 72 would be a middling D.
94-100 = A (4.0)
93-90 = A- or B+ (3.5)
85-89 = B (3.0)
75-84 = C (2.0)
70-74 = D (1.0)
0-69 = F (0.0)
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 11:55:01 [Permalink]
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Bah, yourself. Wiki itself calls your low C "a common example of an American quality index," and not some carved-in-stone standard.
Sheesh, I'm willing to take the D. 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/08/2007 : 12:21:06 [Permalink]
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Y'know, looking at it from an unbeliever's point of view, the argument might be made that the lower your score, the better you've done and happier you should be. I gotta 74. 
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 12:31:50 [Permalink]
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That's right, and if you took the test, you flunked, because everyone knows you don't need knowledge, you need faith.
Besides, I know if someone accused me of getting any of them wrong, I can just say that they were reading it out of context. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:07:00 [Permalink]
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| Thats a BS test like 4 points were dedicated to non-judeo-christian religion. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:09:56 [Permalink]
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| Targeted to an American and therefore mostly Christian audience - you can't expect christians to actually learn another religions edicts - they might get turned to the Dark Side. |
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leoofno
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:21:01 [Permalink]
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| 78! Eat my theological dust!! |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:28:13 [Permalink]
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| I scored a whopping 34. That would probably be an F in ANY scoring system. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:30:21 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Hawks
I scored a whopping 34. That would probably be an F in ANY scoring system.
Not unless you invent your own!  |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 03/08/2007 : 13:40:28 [Permalink]
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Hah! I got higher (80). Eat my theological dust!
But then, I've an ex-Catholic, now-Protestant mother and Buddhist and Muslim friends... |
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