From the Pew News IQ survey, on partisan differences in knowledge of current events:
Across the 12 knowledge items tested, the biggest gap between Democrats and Republicans comes over awareness of the current level of the Dow.
That’s a shocker, isn’t it?
In fairness, Pew reports that Republicans, men, old people, college graduates, and the upper middle class are more knowledgable in general than Democrats, women, young people, high school dropouts, and poor people. So it’s not just the Dow. But lest you get too impressed with the overall scores on this multiple choice survey, Steve Benen points out that “the same Pew Research Center report found that 11% of Americans still think President Obama is a Muslim, which is practically unchanged since the presidential campaign. About one-fifth of all white evangelical Protestants continue to buy into this obvious falsehood.”
Take the test here if you dare. I expect all my readers to score 100%.
