I got a 74 out of 100 on a civics/social studies test, which surprised me because I usually do poorly in politics and social studies. Most Americans scored around a 68 on the same test, showing a concerning lack of basic civic knowledge. While I did slightly better, anything below an 80 still shows gaps. Some test questions covered historical details like World War presidents that seem irrelevant to modern life.
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In circumstances where the receptivity of the onlin
e news is affected by the media bias in
covering public attention events, the quality of th
e textual component is of pervasive importance
for a reliable perception of their informativeness.
Aware of this threat, several natural language
processing techniques have been developed for the p
urpose of capturing the quality of the web
content based on the concepts of objectivity classi
fication and stylometric features, knowledge
maturing, factual density, or simple word count. Th
is paper explores the appropriateness of the
factual density as an adequate quality measure of t
he information reported on the missing
Malaysia Airliners Flight 370 as a public attention
event. The results suggest that the factual
density needs to be applied under strict conditions
in terms of increased confidence level of the
textual news content, if its substance is a subject
of capitalization as a referent source of
information.
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What grade did you get?
I got a 74 out of 100
Why do you think you got that grade other than just the amount of questions you got right?
I just think that I remembered a lot from my high school civics/social studies courses.
What does it mean to you that you got that grade?
I was actually surprised! I usually bomb everything related to politics and social studies.
What does it say about Americans as you learned the nation's average grade on this test (68)?
It makes Americans look like buffoons, although I just got six points higher, I still think
that it is really sad that Americans can’t score over an eighty on this test. Although, there was a
lot of the test that had things in history that I didn’t even have a second thought about. For
instance; how does knowing which the president(s) of the WWI or WWII era have to do with
anything in an American’s life?
