Eileen had nothing to do with it - UPDATED

This morning's quiz is published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute American Civil Literacy Program.

Intriguing stuff. When they did a survey they found elected officials scoring lower than regular citizens overall.

All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of 13 different political and civic activities. These included, for example, registering to vote, signing a petition, contacting a public official, publishing a letter to the editor, and whether they have ever been elected to a government office.

Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. This sub-sample of officeholders yields a startling result: elected officials score lower than the general public. Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected. It would be most interesting to explore whether this statistically significant result is maintained across larger samples of elected officials.

Feeling civic today? Take it here.

h/t to BarbinMD

UPDATE:
linc at Daily Kos points out that the folks who sponsor this test are a bunch of serious right-wingers and the questions are subtly designed to foster conservative thinking in several areas (linc gives examples). Simply given the graphic layout of the test site, I am not surprised; it just has a conservative feel. I suspect linc is right but still found it an interesting test to take. Maybe some progressives should put together their own civics test.

Let me toss in a yes/no question of my own:
Have you read the United States Constitution any time in the last five years?


--the BB