11/24/2008

Civic Literacy Test

I took the online test on civic affairs that elected officials are said to have failed. I would think that a lawyer, at least, should never get fewer than 30 of these correct, assuming they did the test with some care, though really, all the questions are entirely answerable.
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3 comments:

PG said...

I think lawyers with very little understanding of economics could miss some of questions 26-33. The rest are basic "civics," but I'm not sure all of those last few questions, such as #31, are traditional civics questions.

November 24, 2008 at 8:47 AM
Paul Gowder said...

Dude, you have way too generous an understanding of the intelligence and knowledge of your average lawyer. I assume you're at the top end of the lawyer world? Some of the lawyers I've met...

There are also a few defensible alternate answers (like to the very first question -- regardless of the actual words, I was so tempted by the Locke answer), as well as a few that anyone who is sufficiently nasty to be a lawyer would be almost morally compelled to choose (25c for the humor value, 25e as, ahem, the accurate answer that is doubtless scored as a fail). And 31 way murders Ricardo.

(Hi. I like your blog. Don't know how I've never seen it before.)

December 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Raffi said...

Thanks for the kind comments, Paul. I enjoy your blog too. I'm somewhere in the top of the legal world, I guess, so maybe I'm overestimating things. I want to talk to the people who picked B for 27.

December 5, 2008 at 7:20 AM

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