{"id":13107,"date":"2008-07-20T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T05:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/20\/evidently-all-that-blog-reading-and-npr-listening-makes-me-well-informed.html"},"modified":"2008-07-20T22:58:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T05:58:23","slug":"evidently_all_that_blog_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/evidently_all_that_blog_r.html","title":{"rendered":"Evidently all that blog reading and NPR listening makes me well-informed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on my score on the Pew “News IQ” test<\/a> — 91st percentile of participants (with 11 of 12 answers correct). (The one I got wrong is the second-least likely question for folks to get right — though evidently that makes me and others headline-worthy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I suspect BD will get 100%, and perhaps DOF, but I’m not sure who else I know is enough of a news wonk to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on my score on the Pew “News IQ” test — 91st percentile of participants (with 11 of 12 answers correct). (The one I got wrong is the second-least likely…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-fourth-estate","category-personality-tests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14846,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/end-of-the-third-grade.html","url_meta":{"origin":13107,"position":0},"title":"End of the Third Grade","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-May-09 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine's home from school, wrapping up her Third Grade experience with Mr Mayer. 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Trump suggests he'd top Tillerson in an IQ test after 'moron'\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-smug.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5011,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/dear_lord_pleas.html","url_meta":{"origin":13107,"position":5},"title":"Dear Lord, please let this be a joke","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-03 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. I am aware that I am a finicky eater. Not as much as some, but certainly down at the 25th percentile or below. 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