Are you as politically aware as Sarah?

The Sarah-Palin-thought-South-Africa-was-the-southern-region-of-the-country-Africa thing made me gaze at my own navel and wonder if I have the common knowledge required to be politically saavy. So I nosed around the web to see if there was some kind of meter-stick to measure.

et voila.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press published a report, a Political Knowledge Update. The conclusion, "Most of the Public Is Familiar with Key Political and Iraq Facts"

It suggests that you take the quiz of questions for yourself before you actually read the report.

So, really really really hoping that I'd never embarrass myself at parties the way SP did on international television, I took the test to see if I was bright.

Apparently I am :-)

I don't mean to brag but I'm over the 80% tile compared to the rest of you yahoos.

More after the jump

Unfortunately, according to the report, the national average for women was below the national average at 39% (on one hand it means I'm doubly as smart as the average woman in the area, the bad news is that it's fuckin 39%!!!)

Of course, the Pew reports that the average person does not know enough, they normally pay attention as does the media. and as the war wained less knowledge was absorbed/learned/accumulated.

interesting. I wonder what Sarah would have scored.....

OH... that's it. she brought the average down. we should tabulate it like ice skating, you know you can drop her score as low (and mine as high, hee hee) and just average everyone elses... then I bet we wouldn't be losing to the boys.

so there!