It's nice to know that a PhD in science is good for something .. what was your score?
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No, this isn't a mistake-- I'm doing two quasi-polls on academic issues today, because I care what you think...
My post below elicited a lot of response. One thing to point out though, which I want to emphasize: a higher proportion of smart people go to college now than in the past. How can this be?
the results from yesterday's poll on reporting exam scores were pretty strongly divided.
Earlier this week I argued that the gender differences in cognition, while real, are not substantial enough to explain gender disparities in science.
Only 87%. Sb threw me, as I couldn't find blogerium on the list.
heh. that was my first thought when i saw that, too!
BTW, consider yourself tagged.
Does everyone get the same test? I knew a little of the history of names, so I wasn't thrown by kalium, stibnium, stannum, ferrum, or aurum.
Elements by Tom Lehrer
And when you are a native Romance language-speaker, it's even easier ;-)
I'm wondering though, about the color quiz (on same page). Is there a preferred region in the RGB cube for errors? (And by the way, how are the named colors distributed in the RGB cube?)
Wow, 80%! I'm quite shocked at my recollection of high school chemistry class. I thought I had filled all that space up with various computer languages and sci-fi trivia.
100%. That wasn't even tough. It does seem everyone gets the same test. They didn't try to throw any curveballs: Au vs. Ag, As vs. At, Tl vs. Tm. Heh.
100%, they should have included some of the more unusual ones like Cs or Rh.
Of course, 4 years of compiling monthly ICP analytical data and some GDMS data, into usable tables, tends to mean I can do them in my sleep.
93% but I have been out of science for 10 years and only have a MS and an ABD
I got 100% and all I have is high school chemistry. I had to guess at Sb which wasn't hard since I knew all the other possible answers. Did I earn a science nerd badge that I can wear with pride?
Romeo:
Only is you also remember atomic weights, electronegativity and possible oxidation states of these elements :)
100% easy. (Doesn't everyone know Sb is antimony and Sn is tin?)
I do have a batchelor's in biochemistry, but that was 35 years ago, and I have not used my chemistry since.
Actually there is a much better, harder elements test at http://www.freerice.com/index.php?&t=34116054560&s=Chemical%20Symbols, and when you are doing that one you are donating to charity rather than getting advertising for a dating site.
80%, which is not too bad for me.
But I managed 100% on the soda test. I don't know what this might mean, and I don't think I want to know.
93%. But then I haven't done any chemistry in over 9 years (since I finished my A-Levels).
Hang on a second, It's 9 years since I finished my A-Levels? Fuck I'm old!
80%. And I don't have any sort of science degree. Just a computer graphics nerd who loves science.