Test Your IQ with the Pew Internet Quiz

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CommanderFrank

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So, you think you know everything there is to know about the Internet? MakeUseOf would like to test that knowledge of yours against a control group. Pew Research came up with the short test to see if you are as knowledgeable as you think you are. :cool:

You’ll also be able to compare your results to the representative sample of 1,066 people who officially took the quiz.
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Eh I bit. Got 10 of the 12 right so at that time I was:

You scored better than 95.3% of the public, below 1.3% and the same as 3.4%.

As the website says.
 
Can someone explain how being able to recognize Sheryl Sandberg equates to knowledge of the internet. Facebook don't have a fucking clue about it.
 
JeffDC said:
Can someone explain how being able to recognize Sheryl Sandberg equates to knowledge of the internet. Facebook don't have a fucking clue about it.
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That's the one question I missed. Who the heck is Sheryl Sandberg?
 
JeffDC said:
Can someone explain how being able to recognize Sheryl Sandberg equates to knowledge of the internet. Facebook don't have a fucking clue about it.
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No clue, but just happened to get lucky with recognizing her.

You scored better than 99.8% of the public, and the same as <1%.

Not really too useful an Internet IQ Quiz honestly.
 
"Moore’s Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip…"

This is quite a stupid way to put it.
 
Moore&#8217;s Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip


You answered "False"

The correct answer is "True"
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But that's fucking wrong.
 
10 out of 12, I don't feel to bad about the score, considering the questions I missed were about Facebook and the Sandberg person
 
motomonkey said:
10 out of 12, I don't feel to bad about the score, considering the questions I missed were about Facebook and the Sandberg person
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It's like testing culinary knowledge by seeing if people recognize Colonel Sanders.
 
geh 8 out of 10. How would I know what university got on the net first? Or sheryl sandberg?
 
Meeho said:
Yes, it is.

1. it's an observation of a trend
2. it relates to a certain size

Nowhere does it state what amount of transistors a processor could be built with..
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This. I know exactly what Moore's Law is, and I got that question wrong because it's poorly worded.

The only other question I got wrong was about the Facebook lady, because really who gives a shit who she is and what does that have to do with knowledge of the internet?
 
90%, there was one I would have missed outright. Two I missed because I changed my answer. I know to always go with the first instinct and I changed it anyways.
 
i960 said:
The only other question I got wrong was about the Facebook lady, because really who gives a shit who she is and what does that have to do with knowledge of the internet?
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Someone with a feminist agenda snuck her in because she is a woman I think. I searched about her it seems like she is a good businesswoman but I didn't find anything about her being a tech leader. "Internet leader" means she would have a strong knowledge of computers and programming and drive some sort of technological improvements to the internet.
 
Meeho said:
Yes, it is.

1. it's an observation of a trend
2. it relates to a certain size

Nowhere does it state what amount of transistors a processor could be built with..
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twice as much as it was 18 months ago?
 
Turbo Mach 5 said:
Eh I bit. Got 10 of the 12 right so at that time I was:

You scored better than 95.3% of the public, below 1.3% and the same as 3.4%.

As the website says.
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Same here. I can't imagine there are too many on this site that will score worse. Technically, that makes us the village idiots.
 
Meeho said:
"Moore’s Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip…"

This is quite a stupid way to put it.
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Jospeh said:
But that's fucking wrong.
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heatlesssun said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

That's the way I've always understood Moore's Law and seen it basically described.
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MavericK96 said:
No, it isn't.
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Meeho said:
Yes, it is.

1. it's an observation of a trend
2. it relates to a certain size

Nowhere does it state what amount of transistors a processor could be built with..
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i960 said:
This. I know exactly what Moore's Law is, and I got that question wrong because it's poorly worded.

The only other question I got wrong was about the Facebook lady, because really who gives a shit who she is and what does that have to do with knowledge of the internet?
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Ocean said:
twice as much as it was 18 months ago?
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I believe Gordon Moore's exact quote was,

"The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months."

How does that not have to do with the number of transistors on an IC?

The only thing I take issue with the wording of the question is the use of the word "relates," and that is why I would have gotten the question wrong. But taking the IQ of the researchers who put this "quiz" together into account, I answered all 12 questions "correctly."
 
"Moore&#8217;s Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip&#8230;"

Key words are "can be". This means the number of transistors regardless of the size of the computer chip. So in essence how big of a computer chip you can possibly make.
 
I'm too lazy and dumb to read the whole thing. Here's his paper.

I got the browser question and the facebook first university question wrong. Considering I was 2 in 93, I'm perfectly fine with that.
 
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