Test your educational level.

[AV1611VET]

idk if got it right but
X=number of cows sold
10 - X = 12
-X = 12-10
-X = 2

2????

Close enough!

The answer is "negative two."

In other words, he bought two cows.

You reducing it to an equation solved it.

Good job!

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

All I can see is..

"Sorry our content is not available in your area".

Hope I didn't fail at the first hurdle.

If you use the Opera browser, it has a free VPN (virtual private network) which can make it appear that you're browsing from a different country (Americas, Europe, Asia, or 'Optimal location'). I could access the quiz from Opera with the VPN enabled, but not from Chrome.

 

[Go Braves]

A better measure of your educational level is your education & your career.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Close enough!

The answer is "negative two."

In other words, he bought two cows.

Selling not the same as buying, as any salesman will tell you.

 

[Mountainmike]

A square cover can fit through the hole and fall onto a worker below. A round cover cannot. It's a safety measure.

That's it!

Alright another question that really tests level of science education...

Is the often used equation V=IR a definition or a law?

 

[Ophiolite]

That's it!

Alright another question that really tests level of science education...

Is the often used equation V=IR a definition or a law?

I don't find it useful to think of it as either. My recollection is that it is considered a Law, but since the concept of Laws tends to be - in my view - anachronistic, I generally ignore the terminology. I prefer to think of it as a relationship. (That's my current view, I hope you don't find it too shocking and put up a lot of resistance to it.)

 

[OldWiseGuy]

A square cover can fit through the hole and fall onto a worker below. A round cover cannot. It's a safety measure.

Doh!

 

[OldWiseGuy]

A better measure of your educational level is your education & your career.

Education implies formal learning. Experience based knowledge is just as useful, maybe more so. My career (various vocational experiences) are almost totally disconnected from my 'education', with the exception of some math. In the broader sense a person's education is the sum total of all his or her knowledge, whether based on formal education or lifetime experience. Both are necessary of course.

 

[Mountainmike]

I don't find it useful to think of it as either. My recollection is that it is considered a Law, but since the concept of Laws tends to be - in my view - anachronistic, I generally ignore the terminology. I prefer to think of it as a relationship. (That's my current view, I hope you don't find it too shocking and put up a lot of resistance to it.)

It is most certainly only one of them, and only one.

But I won't say which till more have guessed, it is also an essential distinction to understand the foundarion and scope of science, but sadly not taught till well into university, so is a measure of educational level.

 

[bhsmte]

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I'm not a PhD though. The people that made this test seem to have very low expectations / standards

I hit PhD as well and completely agree, the test was a low bar.

 

[Anguspure]

I'm a high school grad but scored "Masters Degree" on this test, which shows that one can learn through experience (with no big student debt).

PhD and I'm just a simple sailor. TBH the questions were pretty basic.
If knowing that stuff reflects a high level of education then the academic world is in a very sorry state indeed.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

PhD and I'm just a simple sailor. TBH the questions were pretty basic.
If knowing that stuff reflects a high level of education then the academic world is in a very sorry state indeed.

It is indeed. I was blown away when I perused my mother's 1928 High School yearbook. College level material (today) written by HS seniors throughout.

 

[Mountainmike]

Alright another question that really tests level of science education...

Is the often used equation V=IR a definition or a law?

What... nobody up for a shot at this real test of academic depth? Particularly this one which explores the real context of science and is worthwhile for Christians battling against a false presumption that science explains leaving no room for God.

 

[Herman Hedning]

The real test of intelligence is of course who falls for silly clickbait or not.

 

[PsychoSarah]

Sorry, the actual test didn't come up, and I couldn't find it. But there are several similar ones on line. Here's one.
Can We Guess Your Level Of Education?

Lol, that one gave me a score of PhD.

Quizzes like these generally are made just to make people feel smart, they don't give much of an indication of anything, especially with questions this easy.

-_- also, this quiz marked an incorrect answer for when WW2 ended. The closest date to the correct one was 1944, but WW2 ended in September of 1945.

 

[PsychoSarah]

It is most certainly only one of them, and only one.

But I won't say which till more have guessed, it is also an essential distinction to understand the foundarion and scope of science, but sadly not taught till well into university, so is a measure of educational level.

Assuming a person is taught physics. I don't see why even an upper level business major would have to know Ohm's law. It's impossible to have any idea of a person's education through a single question alone unless their education is so poor that they are bound to get a simple question wrong.

 

[Mountainmike]

Assuming a person is taught physics. I don't see why even an upper level business major would have to know Ohm's law. It's impossible to have any idea of a person's education through a single question alone unless their education is so poor that they are bound to get a simple question wrong.

And that is the problem.

That equation is NOT a law, despite lower level physics misnaming it as such.

It is a definition , in this case of resistance, it is NOT ohms law despite being mislabelled as such so often it has gained the status of fact. Indeed to a purist it is not even an equation. It is an identity if rewritten correctly as -
R identically equal to V/I

Ohms law states that measured resistance is reasonably constant for a range of materials ( certainly not all) over a range of operating points. I.e. An experimental law.

That illustrates the difference between the axiomatic scientific model and the limited conformance with the universe, observed in laws so the model does not underpin the universe it simply models observation of it,

And it is incumbent on all in high level education at least to understand what science is and what it is not, or indeed to understand the meaning of words like hypothesis , theory and law, definition and axiomatic model.

In almost all disciplines scientific process and modelling is used, and it is vital to understand the limits of it. What it can tell you, what it cannot.

So understanding the difference between definitions and experimental laws, axiomatic and fundamental models, is vital to any would be researcher, business included - Particularly those who wish to model using statistical correlations, to understand that correlation is not cause.

So for example observation of salary difference or numbers in salary bands between male and female is not demonstration of causal discrimination.

As a now ex employer of many high calibre masters, doctorate and post doctoral staff, I used a set of questions to discover those who had IQ and understanding needed for such calling, many did not. The failures were rote learners - that is - they were a database without a big enough CPU!

 

[AV1611VET]

Lol, that one gave me a score of PhD.

Quizzes like these generally are made just to make people feel smart, they don't give much of an indication of anything, especially with questions this easy.

-_- also, this quiz marked an incorrect answer for when WW2 ended. The closest date to the correct one was 1944, but WW2 ended in September of 1945.

It said WW1 … not WW2.

 

[PsychoSarah]

It said WW1 … not WW2.

You are right, my bad. Still, ha, it called me a PhD when I got that answer wrong, which is super funny.

 

[AV1611VET]

You are right, my bad. Still, ha, it called me a PhD when I got that answer wrong, which is super funny.

It may have graded on a curve, or maybe it makes an allowance for a wide margin of error?