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At least in the beer bottle then knew almost every decision. Why they just burst in the freezer? Exactly 81 percent of the participants typed in the right of the four answers: because the liquid expands during freezing.
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The question comes from the biggest test of general knowledge, which is available in Germany has ever existed. Hundreds of thousands of people have in recent weeks, the knowledge test and dared the "students of Pisa" of blogs and studiVZ join. More than 1.5 million times the test was on the pages of blogs ONLINE called, over 600,000 people answered the questionnaire completely. Or at least tried it.
It was necessary to solve tasks in five areas of knowledge. Now, the results are available. And they show how hard the students had to crack Pisa. Only 26 people broke all tasks correctly, that is just 0.0043 percent of all participants.
One of them is Hendrik Hornbostel, 23: "I'm about to test studiVZ attention. Some questions I found relatively easy, others I was not so sure. The identification of birds and trees, I still most likely problems," Osnabrücker said the business student.
Reinhard Zander, 61, graduated from the course with flying colors. "I stand against seven in the morning, read newspapers and then often look like the Internet," says the retired Essen. "The test has given me much, mainly because he not only multiple-choice questions were like the quiz shows in TV. The I look at only rarely. I always have a lot of value placed on factual knowledge. Maybe helped me. "
Why are the only women's poor results?
On average, participants answered 24.5 of 45 questions correctly, ie slightly more than half. In its current issue reports to the blogs in detail about the results and presents a ranking of universities and disciplines. The magazine also analyzes the findings, the editors of the most surprising: women cut in the "Student Pisa" worse than men. On average, they sparked 21.5 questions correctly, however, men 26.5.
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Therefore the question arises as to whether the sample was not representative of the questionnaire or not balanced. Or is factual knowledge as important for the test was easy for men to play a greater role? The article examines blogs to an answer.
Irrespective of gender is in any case: The older the participants were, the better cut it. Peak reached in addition to the retired and the doctoral students, they answered an average of about 30 questions correctly. The students, however, landed in less than 20 questions correct. And the students? More than 200,000 made with about one in ten students in Germany. They came in the middle to 26 correct answers.
As an upper Schlau Meier's policy turned out to students. They achieved the best result from the historians, the economics students and physicists. Very brave to be the educators and social workers: They landed at the last ranking of the study subjects. ONLINE blogs shows exclusive compartment for compartment in which academia, the brightest minds to study. For each of the 25 subjects, the students most likely to be chosen, there is a separate ranking (see below in the tables).
Gap between universities and disciplines
Thus in a university in the evaluation was, at least 50 students with the major of this university have participated. Colored marker to show whether the students of this university to the top group may include more or less than the total average landed. Dark green means absolute peak. Dark blue means very bad.
Serves as a benchmark the result that all university students from universities with over 1000 participants have achieved. The classification of groups was based on a recognized statistical procedure, a so-called t-test (0.5-percent significance level).
What of the results to be discussed blogs editor Mark Verbeet from Tuesday, 19 May 11 at the clock studiVZ partners. There is, inter alia, to the questions: Are such rankings are not totally dishonest? Why have education,
if it is Wikipedia? And how can the different performance of men and women? Of course, this is also an issue in blogs, online forum.
Those who participate in the test questions will try again, may be submitted to the quiz from blogs ONLINE mitmachen. There are every 180 tasks in the five areas of knowledge to see:
Politics,
Economy,
History,
And culture - see the bottle of beer --
Naturwissenschaften. In the original test was conducted after each participant an equal random selection of 45 difficult tasks presented. Among other politicians are able to identify the main cities to designate historical events and classify plants and animals to see.
Dice is tricky
The tasks had an editorial team of the blogs elaborated, the specialists from the editorial staff, the documentation department and the market belonged. For several hundred proposals, they chose the most exciting questions. These were from the Hamburg psychology professor Sabine Trepte in a pre-checked.
The beer bottles question proved to be relatively easy, far above many of the participants were able to answer. As an almost difficult question in the test turned out to be a different task from the field of science and mathematics. It reads: You roll two dice - how great is the probability that both dice show the same number?
The hit rates with a simple chance was not so small because there were four responses to choose from set (1 / 3, 1 / 6, 1 / 12, 1 / 36). But only 16 percent of all participants came to the right solution for 1 / 6. Also, the students performed on this issue by no means better.
After they serve in their personal evaluation of the outcome have been elucidated, some complained that even in the editorial blogs, because the supposedly too stupid to be arithmetic. They were in a small tutoring hour by e-mail elucidated. Who doubts unchanged and all mathematical statements of the result may not be interesting, which is probably only one thing - Kniffeln sufficiently extensive. So: At the dice, get set, go!
Here you will find all the questions and answers from the five areas of knowledge. Get a coffee, leave your brain vorglühen, you grant your knowledge Discontinued:
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