Among the least-informed respondents, Democrats and Republicans picked the wrong answer in roughly equal numbers.
As always with this type of question there is no right or wrong answer.
"We have a lot of precedent for small studies that gave the wrong answer, " Blumenthal says.
Mr Shipler's conclusion is that America is increasingly prone to give the wrong answer.
Unfortunately, it looks as if the United States is about to come up with the wrong answer.
So, when it comes to your investments, there is no right or wrong answer based purely on logic.
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The research does not lead to a simple one way is right and the other is wrong answer.
These are all serious questions with no right or wrong answer, but we should each consider them carefully.
Sometimes one of the pair was actually a lab assistant instructed by Nemeth to provide a wrong answer.
And I don't really think it's a right or wrong answer to it.
The exhibits stimulate the brain without requiring any right or wrong answer, happy to leave the lessons open to interpretation.
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If the balance due is not going to be paid, filing a joint return is quite likely the wrong answer.
So long as the final result is a smaller burden of government, there is no right or wrong answer about the process.
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Ironically, Romney gave the wrong answer and Obama gave the right answer.
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We might be focused, but we're probably focused on the wrong answer.
Among Conservative members, 47% gave the wrong answer, which is disappointing enough.
That was surely the wrong answer, even leaving aside the debatable issue of whether cabinet secretaries can influence the level of exchange rates.
But I can tell you that the wrong answer is to pretend like this problem will go away if we maintain an unsustainable status quo.
In a study carried out in the 1970s, 80% of those questioned at a leading American hospital gave the wrong answer, most of them saying 95%.
But, he adds, a backlash against immigrants who are among the most downtrodden in the world is the wrong answer, and one that his movement will fight.
Any human would have avoided simply regurgitating a wrong answer.
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English is always the area where there is most dispute about grades because with maths and science - the other two subjects tested in Sats this summer - there is usually a right and wrong answer.
In a category looking for the name of a 20th century decade, Watson twice either failed to buzz in or gave wrong answers including one absurdity when Watson repeated a wrong answer that zapped Jennings first.
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He looked like a security guard in a suit and hi-viz gilet, but he unfurled a banner saying "Nuclear: wrong answer", and as he crawled along a high iron girder, the word "Greenpeace" was revealed on the back of his jacket.
The mistakes in this summer's papers included multiple choice questions where all the answers were wrong and questions which were impossible to answer because wrong information had been given.
The E. coli computer differs from a regular computer in that it turn each piece of DNA into a simulated pancake, with sections of DNA being flipped to hide from a killer antibiotic if they get the answer right, and killed if they get the answer wrong.
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Hockey fans? (No, that's way too many hockey fans.) Asian immigrants? (Good guess, but wrong.) Correct answer: the residents of 397 rural U.S. counties averaging 40, 000 in population.
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