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Interesting quiz in NYT

Postby Hennessy on Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:58 pm

Hennessy starts a thread related to religion, begin the countdown to doomsday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opini ... ef=general

I got about 70% wrong but the answers are surprising if you think you know where you stand.
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Re: Interesting quiz in NYT

Postby Senethro on Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:24 pm

I got 8/13 right but many of those were perverse guesses based on not choosing what I believed were wrong but tempting answers the tester placed there to trick you.

Which pretty much backs up what he said at the end - that we have expectations and biases regarding certain religions.
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Re: Interesting quiz in NYT

Postby Haunted on Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:39 pm

Got all of the "all of the above" questions wrong. Be nice to have that as an option then I might've had a chance.

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-re ... knowledge/
This was the one that highlighted that religious believers seem content to know next to nothing about what they profess to believe. Amazingly, most Catholics believed that the Eucharist was only meant to be symbolic of the body of Christ and NOT actually magically transforming into his actual body upon being blessed. Going by that standard I wonder what the figure of "over a billion" catholics would be reduced to?
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Re: Interesting quiz in NYT

Postby RedCelt69 on Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:33 pm

Haunted wrote:http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/

I did that one a few days ago, scoring 14/15. I was wrong on US law which (as a non-US citizen) is, at least, forgivable. I'd thought that teachers could lead their students in prayer - in a situation where all concerned were willing.
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