Among the least-informed respondents, Democrats and Republicans picked the wrong answer in roughly equal numbers.
"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.
If the balance due is not going to be paid, filing a joint return is quite likely the wrong answer.
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.
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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The research does not lead to a simple one way is right and the other is wrong answer.
The exhibits stimulate the brain without requiring any right or wrong answer, happy to leave the lessons open to interpretation.
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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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Before the latest figures were announced, Roy Norris, former chair of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, said people would be wrong to think that the simple answer was to have more ambulances.
But it bothered him that, in the new wars, soldiers had to answer to the media for every wrong move.
Of course, that information, as you say on the answer phone from the flight was wrong, because there had been a delay of 40 minutes.
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.
The answer is that it might be the wrong question.
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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 answer is, you're all wrong, " Berri said.
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Look back at Britain's industrial history with today's obsession with the Internet in mind, and you start to grasp at what may be the truest answer of all: that what went wrong with British manufacturing industry was not that it declined so fast, but that so much effort went into arresting that decline.
And this is not solely a media story about getting things wrong: In the end, social media got to the answer of who Ryan Lanza is much more quickly than a dozen local reporters would have done.
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Sometimes one of the pair was actually a lab assistant instructed by Nemeth to provide a wrong answer.
The answer, says Mr Lilley, is that Tories talked the wrong language.
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