I was looking up the latest Brexit poll results, (Leave has come out ahead in the last five straight, but the "latest poll of polls average " has it split exactly down the middle 50-50) and came across a quiz on EU knowledge:
Your result is:
8 /10
Congratulations! Whether you're for or against a Brexit, your decision is based on a highly informed understanding of the European Union.
You have to scroll down the page past the article about the polls to see it:
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Well, there you go. I am obviously a better economist than philosopher.
I think... therefore I spend.
"Your result is: 9 /10 Congratulations! Whether you're for or against a Brexit, your decision is based on a highly informed understanding of the European Union."
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
It malfunctioned on my mobile halfway through, but given the content of the questions I'd seen thus far, it hardly qualifies as proof of in depth knowledge of how the EU works. How much is a Euro worth? What/Where is the mountain of butter? Does the EU run the Eurovision Song Contest?
eta: I got 10/10 and it's no indication of being 'highly informed' about the functioning of the EU.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
