Test your knowledge of the US gov't.+----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Government: Myth vs. Reality | | Summary Report | | | | Your Score: Your Score (percentage) | | 80 72% | | | | Total Possible Score (points) Passing Score: | | 110 70% | | | | Test Status: | | Pass | | | | Message: | | You did very well! You know a lot about how American | | government really works and you can see beyond the negative | | stereotypes about the public sector promoted by conservative | | critics. |
> Bear in mind, all the things you've heard in the past will suddenly be
> revealed as false.
> Out of a possible 110 I got a 12.
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Uh, gee; thanks Mr. Amy. However, I *am* one of those "conservative critics", or at least you would likely classify me as one. I chose my answers by first scanning your opening page, understanding your own bias and then picking the answers that I figured you would assume your "opponent" to view as most unlikely.
It brought back fond memories of several of my college professors, particularly the wild-haired ones in Sociology, when you used discrete points in a continuum to "prove" a trend. Also, the wisdom with which highly-disparete services were jumbled together to create amorphous blobs that would always tend towards a mediocre mean, then using the mediocre mean to indicate parity. Delicious!
Oh, and I loved some of your characterizations! Such as when a Master should deign to *not* take something away from his Servant gets reworked into a "subsidy" for that Servant?
Thanks for the Friday laugh, Mr. Amy.