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Source: The Smithsonian<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

This early 20th-century doozie was given to 8th graders in the Bluegrass State to test their scientific literacy…and to make its 21st century discoverers\/takers feel incredibly stupid. Fear not, though; for every geography question you Nagasaki’d, there’s an expert refuting the real value of tests like this. Case in point: researchers Will Grant and Merryn McKinnon say “We pretend that factoids are a useful proxy for scientific literacy, and in turn that scientific literacy is a useful proxy for good citizenship. But there\u2019s simply no evidence this is true.”<\/p>\n

With that said, though, if you still can’t get behind basic concepts like alternative energy sources and global warming, you’re on your own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This early 20th-century doozie was given to 8th graders in the Bluegrass State to test their scientific literacy…and to make its 21st century discoverers\/takers feel incredibly stupid. Fear not, though; for every geography question you Nagasaki’d, there’s an expert refuting the real value of tests like this. Case in point: researchers Will Grant and Merryn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nAre You Smarter Than A 1912 8th Grader?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can't solve percent questions? Don't know where Montenegro is? 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