Via The Agitator, a civics exam which was administered to 2500 people. The average score by elected US public officials on this exam was a paltry 44%, while the general public clocked in with 49%, an F in most of the schools I attended1.
I don’t understand how anyone, regardless of station, can’t do better than that. This was not a tough exam; I took it cold, after seeing the link in my feed reader, with these results:
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%
So, I’m ahead of the curve, even though I missed a couple that I shouldn’t have.
Maybe our elected officials are too dumb to govern; or maybe the populace is too dumb to be governed. I don’t know.
Check out the exam here, and see how you do.
-k-
1