Empire Of Unobtanium

clipped from chicagoboyz.net In a multiple choice question, teenagers were asked why electric wires are made from copper. The four possible answers were that copper was brown, was not magnetic, conducted electricity, or that it conducted heat. This question can of course be answered without knowing anything at all about either electricity or copper. Demonstration: Why is unobtanium used to summon the Gostak? 1)Unobtainum is purple 2)Unobtanium is not magnetic 3)The Gostak has a strong affinity for unobtainum 4)Unobtanium is attractive to gnomes It’s pretty clear that the desired answer is (3), even if you don’t know what unobtainium is or what (who?) the Gostak might be. The question on the U.K. “science test” might be a test of the ability to read and perform very simple logic; it has nothing to do with the measurement of scientific knowledge or the understanding of scientific methods.