Two quizzes
Wow. Has it really been over a month since I posted here? I am lame. :-) (I've been busy, actually. A lot of my blogging has gone into http://comfort-and-joy.net -- our family blog -- and between Thanksgiving vacation and a sick baby, I haven't had a lot of time for blogging in general.)

Anyway. In my blog-reading rounds today, I found two quizzes that tickled my brain enough for me to actually finish them. The easy one first:


The data literacy test. At least, this should be easy for some of you software engineers. I got a 28, which kind of stunned me. Maybe I know more about programming languages than is good for me...

This is the harder one, at least for me:

The American history, civics, and economics test. Most of us learned this stuff in high school, but how much of it stuck? :-) Rich, you should be able to ace this one. I got an 80%. But if it hadn't been for Ken Burns's "Civil War" and other PBS shows, it wouldn't have been that high; heh heh.

I just realized that this second site holds colleges responsible for failing to teach civics. See, I disagree there. I think this stuff should be taught in high school, and that it's strictly optional at the college level. If someone wants to learn more about 18th-century political philosophy in college, that's fantastic, but don't hold MIT "accountable" for not forcing it down my throat, thank you very much. I liked the practical education I got at MIT. Hmmph.