What s your news IQ? (new bonus point opportunity)

If you blog in this site you probably pay more attention to the news than most people. But how much of it do you remember? Do you pay attention to the details?

Do you remember the sports scores, but doze off when you get to the news about Washington? We have some new resources for you, and also an opportunity to earn some more bonus points.
First, you may have noticed the new in the menu items at the top of the site.

This page lists headlines from news articles that ProU editors decided to share with members. We will be expanding this feature in the future, but please check it out and provide the editors with your feedback.
For this month s bonus opportunity, we want to encourage you to take the .

We ll give you 100 bonus points just for taking the quiz and reporting your results, and 500 additional points if you score above 70th percentile. by June 30 to qualify for the bonus points. Some of the questions are a little bit tricky, but don t get flustered, and don t cheat (you re on the honor system for this one).

If you find the quiz results interesting, you may want to check out other resources on the . The Pew Research Center bills itself as a fact tank, providing information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. You can sign up for their email alerts on topics that you are interested in, and before you know it your friends will be calling you a news genius (if they don t already).

You know, I don't consider myself especially news-savvy, so it's kind of sad that I did alright. I missed the minimum wage question because I thought only the House passed it.

And what's up with fewer women knowing about the news than men?

LOL, I thought for sure that I was going to fail since I tend to only pay attention the news that interests me and ignore most every thing else.

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Not sure about the fewer women knowing about the news than men.

"Dream as though you'll live forever, but live as though there's no tomorrow" --James Dean

I'm not in the contest, but took the quiz anyway.
"You correctly answered 9 of the 9 possible questions along with approximately.

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Kind of scary!

I wonder why women pay less attention to the news than men? The only thing I can come up with, and it will probably be contested, is that so many women are busy they don't get to watch as much news?

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" George Elliot
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

If someone studied (and I'm way too lazy for this) the trend of men and women keeping up with the news, I'm sure one could see whether women mapped the same 20 years ago, and whether that correllates to any other trends that might affect how much time women have to read the news.
Like, for example, women work a lot more than they used to, which may contribute to them being busy. But they also take public transportation more often in urban centers, which gives opportunities to read the paper (but then, what cross-section of the female population is represented by those in urban areas with public transportation).

Many work with computers, which, with Internet access, allows them to read news on breaks.
I have no idea if any of this is statistically supported, but it would be interesting to compare the trends of female daily lives in America and see whether women realistically have time, and if so, whether they just aren't paying attention because they aren't interested? What would interest them more?

Different media? Different news?
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