I got them all right, and the only one I even had to stop and think about as who was the Fed Chair (because all the guys were finance guys, and at least one used to be chair!)
I did a phone survey the other week, and man was it a dumb survey. It was all about illegal immigration, and the guy reading the questions agreed that some of them didn't make any sense. There were options where I had to choose Thing A I Totally Disagree With or Thing B I totally Disagree With. I was like, who wrote this poll!? But I felt sorry for the poor guy reading the idiot questions, and figured he probably got paid less if I quit. Anyway, point being it made me even more suspicious about poll numbers than Nate Silver already had.
12 for 12. Perhaps I pay too much attention to current events.
10 right. I got the Afghanistan one wrong, and the Fed Chair one.
I got the same one wrong as Jesse, but I had to guess at a couple.
The troops thing was a guess. I figured it wasn't as high as the high number and with ramping up with 100,000+ more troops, I figured it was a good guess.
What makes me laugh is because I'm so NPR dependent that if you asked me to spell Bernanke's name, I'd never get it right.
Look at the percent correct breakdown by question and demographics. FASCINATING! I'm a data nerd.
I got three wrong - fed chairman, afghanistan, and the unemployment rate.
12 for 12. Perhaps I pay too much attention to current events.
Hanging out at Daily Kos got me 11 for 12, I was thinking the wrong direction on paying for health care.
12 for 12 here, although I was reminded that I really have to bone up on my geography--for a second, I was waffling on where certain Middle East countries are in relation to each other.
