davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Sept 11, 2015 21:20:46 GMT -8
I would expect most of we older members had no problem with the polio question. The vaccine was developed in the 50s and school kids received it in the early 60s. Thus discussion of that new vaccine was often in the news as a medical miracle that cured what had been a very crippling disease. In fact recall seeing kids in school that had had polio with degenerated legs who could not participate in recess fun. And if that wasn't enough, was the dreaded polio vaccination school days where we kids formed long longs lines that psychologically tortured us with each step closer to the nurse. And not a few little ones in lower grades would go waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...
Note one receives the vaccination needle a few times over several years. In later decades they came up with the oral vaccine that won't make much of an impression.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 11, 2015 21:27:38 GMT -8
not really Big Brother. They are trying to gather some useful data, so asking about age, education, etc. seems essential. My husband ran through about 6 or 7 of those questions with the 7th and 9th graders staying with us right now. It was interesting to see a) at what point in school they study things (some that the 9th graders answered instantly and their younger brother didn't know), b) that none of them, or their mother, knew about water and altitude, though with a LOT of leading the older ones were able to reason their way to the right answer, and c) their varying abilities/patience for reasoning. My husband is a science educator, so this was of particular interest to him. For the record, I got 100%  I did have to think a bit about the light through the magnifying glass. Then I did a face-palm, thinking about the non-reading things I know to do with one (I don't want to give away answers). Just a bit of a joke, I know those last three weren't part of the quiz as I was pretending. A bit reflecting a recent incident where the brother was HUGE: I was applying for a birth certificate copy from the site that New York City uses and one of the security questions was a list of streets and I was to select the one I hadn't lived on. Well one of them, to my utter amazement, was a street I'd lived on about 45 years ago! Yikes. I would have thought the only place that would have been left was the IRS as I paid taxes then, but no where even a quasi public service could get to it. |
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Sept 12, 2015 3:11:01 GMT -8
OK, I'll admit it. I got the Kardashian question wrong. I can never remember which is which.
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zeke
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Post by zeke on Sept 12, 2015 5:52:09 GMT -8
Then I did a face-palm, thinking about the non-reading things I know to do with one (I don't want to give away answers). |
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 12, 2015 8:07:27 GMT -8
Frying ants came immediately to mind. Exactly, Zeke. Or starting fires. |
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I did have to think a bit about the light through the magnifying glass. Then I did a face-palm, thinking about the non-reading things I know to do with one (I don't want to give away answers).
