Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/american-history

Comment #2456

2007-09-30T21:35:13Z

I think I wanna take the quiz again only this time I'll cover the answers and see if I can guess better than ppl at St. Thomas University can answer. :-D ESP!!!!!!

Comment #2455

2007-09-30T21:22:28Z

55, go study! I also object to tech schools compared to liberal arts school wrt "value added". No one (well, almost no one) goes to a tech school to learn history so why would you try to compare the two? I also gotta say that I am shocked at how badly liberal arts students do on this test. What is going on at Harvard?

Comment #2454

2007-09-29T17:44:35Z

And another thought - can I get my score added to the University of Rochester's results to help them avoid their WOEFUL results?

Comment #2453

2007-09-29T17:41:39Z

I am sorry to disappoint, I missed 3 - so got only 95%. One was REAL embarrassing as it dealt with the Federal Reserve and I have an economics degree. I can only say that I found none of the answers satisfactory -- so I picked the least unsatisfactory. I also know nothing of philosopher kings or the definition of a "just war" in some other philosopher's musings.

Comment #2452

2007-09-25T18:42:22Z

42/60 70% I'm rather proud of that. Is it of any interest that most questions were either obvious to me or I had little clue?

Comment #2451

2007-09-25T17:40:45Z

I got 56. :)

There were about 6 questions where 2 answers seemed plausible, and I guessed correctly on 2, incorrectly on 4, which is worse than random by one for those 6.

Comment #2450

2007-09-25T17:07:16Z

That was fun! The scary thing is that I was above average (53/60, 88.33%), and I KNOW my knowledge of history, government, and economics is poor.

Unlike in many Internet quizzes, I thought these questions were quite good, with both breadth and depth. Of course, standard multiple-choice strategies always help, but I found many of the wrong answers to be plausible.

S, you did better than all the colleges, including Harvard.

Porter and Jimmy, I expect 100% from you. :)

Comment #2449

2007-09-25T16:36:18Z

Actually, the average is much lower than that: rankings

Comment #2448

2007-09-25T16:28:23Z

43 out of 60 for me, so below average as well.