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Apparently, here is the vocabulary test used at the GSS and referenced in the last graph:

http://inductivist.blogspot.com/2010/04/gss-vocabulary-test....




At first I was like, “Oh shit how can anyone not get a 10, these words are easy. Society is doomed!”

Then I saw how the choices were actually really strange for some of them. For example, “Emanate” is meant to be matched to “come”, but that's a very poor match. Similarly “Space” matching to ”room” is a tricky sense.




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