tag:theconversation.com,2011:/global/topics/quiz-37137/articlesQuiz – The Conversation2018-10-19T10:35:15Ztag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1047352018-10-19T10:35:15Z2018-10-19T10:35:15ZGeneration Z voters could make waves in 2018 midterm elections<p>Unlike the much-studied millennials, we don’t know much about Generation Z, who now make up most of the 18- to 24-year-old voting bloc. </p>
<p>These young people started first grade after 9/11, were born with the internet, grew up with smartphones and social media and practiced active-shooter drills in their classrooms.</p>
<p>In 2018, they have taken an active role in political activism on issues like gun control, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. For example, Parkland high school students started the movement against gun violence and <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/10/12/march-for-our-lives-to-embark-on-12-day-national-tour-ahead-of-election-day/">named voting as a way to support the movement</a>.</p>
<p>Yet, many people are skeptical about Generation Z’s commitment to voting. For instance, The Economist explained, in a piece titled “<a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2014/10/29/why-young-people-dont-vote">Why Young People Don’t Vote</a>,” that “young people today do not feel they have much of a stake in society.”</p>
<p>Will Generation Z affect the midterm elections?</p>
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<p><a href="http://civicyouth.org/">The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement</a> at Tufts University, where we do research, has been watching young people’s civic and political behaviors for nearly 20 years. This fall, my colleagues and I are conducting two large-scale national surveys of 2,087 Americans ages 18 to 24 to document and understand what Gen Zs are thinking, feeling and doing when it comes to politics. </p>
<p>So far, the data point to a surge in political engagement, intention to vote and outreach between friends to encourage voting. Gen Zers may be voting for the first time, but they are certainly not new to politics.</p>
<h2>All signs point to youth wave</h2>
<p>Young voters have a reputation of <a href="https://civicyouth.org/quick-facts/youth-voting">not showing up to the polls</a>, especially in midterm elections. This trend goes back 40 years. </p>
<p>There are a few ways we can find out how likely it is that people in Generation Z will turn out to vote.</p>
<p>First, we can just ask. In our survey, 34 percent of youth said they are <a href="https://civicyouth.org/circle-poll-youth-engagement-in-the-2018-election">“extremely likely” to vote</a> in November. While a survey can’t predict exact turnout numbers, data from previous surveys we’ve done using this approach have been close to actual turnout numbers. Other evidence supports this measure of intent to vote: <a href="https://targetsmart.com/analysis-after-parkland-shooting-youth-voter-registration-surges">Voter registration among young people</a> is up in key battleground states and overall.</p>
<p>Research also shows that <a href="http://civicyouth.org/circle-poll-so-much-for-slacktivism-as-youth-translate-online-engagement-to-offline-political-action/">activism and intent to vote are strongly correlated</a>. So, in our survey we also asked young people about activism, such as participating in protests, union strikes, sit-ins and walk-outs.</p>
<p>The proportion of young people who join protests and marches tripled since the fall of 2016, from <a href="http://civicyouth.org/circle-poll-so-much-for-slacktivism-as-youth-translate-online-engagement-to-offline-political-action/">5 percent to 15 percent</a>. Participation is especially high among young people who are <a href="https://civicyouth.org/circle-poll-youth-engagement-in-the-2018-election">registered as Democrats</a>. </p>
<p>Finally, we found that young people are <a href="https://civicyouth.org/circle-poll-youth-engagement-in-the-2018-election/">paying attention to politics</a> more than they were in 2016. In 2016, about 26 percent of young people said they were paying at least some attention to the November elections. This fall, the proportion of youth who report that they are paying attention to the midterm races rose to 46 percent. </p>
<p>It’s clear that more young people are actively engaged in politics this year than 2016. </p>
<p>Why? </p>
<h2>Cynicism and worry aren’t obstacles</h2>
<p>To learn more about what might be motivating Generation Z to vote, we asked our survey participants to rate their level of agreement with three statements. </p>
<p>“I worry that older generations haven’t thought about young people’s future.” </p>
<p>“I’m more cynical about politics than I was 2 years ago.” </p>
<p>“The outcomes of the 2018 elections will make a significant impact to everyday issues involving the government in my community, such as schools and police.”</p>
<p>In this year’s survey, we found that young people who feel cynical are far more likely to say they will vote. Other research has found that cynicism about politics can <a href="http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/users/u2276/opdycke_segura_vasquez_essay5.pdf">suppress or drive electoral engagement</a> depending on the contexts.</p>
<p>Among young people who said “yes” to all three of those questions, more than half – 52 percent – said they are extremely likely to vote. Among young people who said “no” to all three of those questions, only 22 percent were extremely likely to vote.</p>
<p>Our poll results suggest political involvement in this generation is far above the levels we usually see among youth, especially in midterm election cycles. </p>
<p>In fact, almost 3 out of 4 youth – 72 percent – said they believe that dramatic change could occur in this country if people banded together. Gen Z is certainly aware of the challenges ahead but they are hopeful and actively involving themselves and friends in politics. Beyond almost any doubt, youth are involved and feel ready to make a dramatic change in the American political landscape.</p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/104735/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg as part of CIRCLE at Tufts University, receives funding from the Democracy Fund, she is affiliated with Democracy Works, Generation Citizen and Nonprofit Vote, Nellie Mae Foundation, the American Bar Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where she serves as a member of a commission, speaker bureau, advisory board, or the board of directors. </span></em></p>A survey shows the newest generation on the voting block is extremely cynical, and that’s actually driving high levels of political engagement.Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts UniversityLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1038502018-09-28T07:15:26Z2018-09-28T07:15:26ZLogic puzzle: can you solve this baffling Brexit conundrum?<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/237943/original/file-20180925-149985-1ozxuih.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">So, I am...</span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://www.shutterstock.com/download/success?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.shutterstock.com%2Fgatekeeper%2FW3siZSI6MTUzNzkxNzQ4MCwiYyI6Il9waG90b19zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiwiZGMiOiJpZGxfMzYzNzgyMDEyIiwiayI6InBob3RvLzM2Mzc4MjAxMi9tZWRpdW0uanBnIiwibSI6MSwiZCI6InNodXR0ZXJzdG9jay1tZWRpYSJ9LCJ6TFBBMmNSdTZMWGJFSUNxQkltU20zSjZxckkiXQ%2Fshutterstock_363782012.jpg&pi=33421636&m=363782012&src=QdDMiMrescAdOyqFfV3jXw-1-4">Shutterstock</a></span></figcaption></figure><p>At a party, the host arranges the guests in a circle and sticks a post-it note onto each of their foreheads. Each guest can see what’s written on everyone else’s post-it, but not their own.</p>
<p>“You are all Brexit negotiators,” says the host. “Some of you are representing the UK and some the EU, but all of you are negotiating for one or the other and there will be at least one negotiator for each side. The side you are representing is now written on your forehead. UK or EU – does anyone know which they are representing?”</p>
<p>Everyone shakes their head and says they don’t know. </p>
<p>“Does anyone know <em>now</em>?” asks the host. </p>
<p>Again, everyone shakes their head and says “I don’t know”. </p>
<p>But the host persists: “<em>Now</em> does anyone know?”</p>
<p>This cycle continues, to the perplexity of all and the annoyance of some. On the host’s sixth time of asking, the guests, by now wishing they’d gone elsewhere for the evening, again answer, for the sixth time, that they don’t know. But as soon as they’ve done so, some of the guests say, truthfully, “<em>Now</em> I know! I’m EU!”</p>
<p>Given the above facts, how many EU negotiators are there at the party? And what is the minimum number of guests? (Assume that all the guests have reasoned as well as they could have.)</p>
<h2>The solution (spoiler ahead)</h2>
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<p>There are seven EU negotiators, and at least 14 guests. </p>
<p>So how can we know this? At the beginning of the game, the guests know only that there will be at least one EU and one UK negotiator. Suppose there was just one EU negotiator. She would see no other EUs, correctly infer that she was the sole EU, and answer “I know”. </p>
<p>All the guests can reason like this and know that all the others can do so, too. So when everyone says that they don’t know which side they are representing, they can infer that there isn’t exactly one EU. They then know that there are at least two, and that all the others know this as well. </p>
<p>The reasoning can then be repeated. If there were exactly two EUs, the EU negotiators would each see only one other, infer that they were the other EU, and answer that they know. So when all the guests again answer that they don’t know, all the guests can infer that there are at least three EUs, and that everyone else knows this as well. </p>
<p>Each time all the guests say “I don’t know”, they can rule out there being the next number of EUs. So, after the sixth round, everyone knows there are at least seven EUs (and that everyone knows this). Then the EUs, seeing only six other EUs, infer that they, too, are EUs, making seven in total. At that point, they can say, “<em>Now</em> I know!” (In this reasoning, it’s important that each guest knows that the others are reasoning in the same way as them. When a guest knows that there are at least three EUs, for example, she must know that all the other guests know it as well.) The reasoning also works for determining the number of UK negotiators, of course. </p>
<p>We can also establish that there are at least 14 guests. If there had been fewer than 14 guests, there would have been fewer than seven of one kind of negotiator, and someone would have known which they were earlier on in the game. (If there are exactly 14 guests then, after the sixth round, everyone is in a position to know whether they are EU or UK; it just happened that some EUs got there first.)</p>
<p>The puzzle shows, surprisingly, that we can come to know something merely by learning that someone else doesn’t know it. That’s what makes the puzzle philosophically interesting. It’s a variant on the “<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dynamic-epistemic/appendix-B-solutions.html#muddy">muddy children</a>” puzzle, discussed in the literature on “logics of knowledge”: formal systems used by researchers to model and reason about knowledge. Researchers developing new logics of knowledge expect them to be powerful enough to solve the puzzle.</p>
<p>In this field, these <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dynamic-epistemic/index.html">“dynamic epistemic logics”</a> are powerful tools for reasoning about knowledge. Knowledge is gained by establishing which situations those involved can or cannot rule out (such as there being exactly one EU negotiator). “Public announcements”, such as “there is at least one EU negotiator” and “I don’t know”, act as “updates”, which rule out certain situations, lead to more knowledge and, in the case of our puzzle, can ultimately reveal the right answer.</p>
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<li><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/maths-quiz-a-very-problematic-game-of-tennis-102381?utm_source=TCUK&utm_medium=linkback&utm_campaign=TCUKengagement&utm_content=UKPuzzle">Maths quiz: a very problematic game of tennis</a></em></li>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Mark Jago does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>No cheating, please.Mark Jago, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of NottinghamLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1023812018-09-14T08:21:45Z2018-09-14T08:21:45ZMaths quiz: a very problematic game of tennis<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/236273/original/file-20180913-177947-l7oqk3.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">One racket of many.</span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://www.shutterstock.com/download/success?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.shutterstock.com%2Fgatekeeper%2FW3siZSI6MTUzNjg4NjY0NiwiYyI6Il9waG90b19zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiwiZGMiOiJpZGxfMTE3NDM1MTkzOSIsImsiOiJwaG90by8xMTc0MzUxOTM5L21lZGl1bS5qcGciLCJtIjoxLCJkIjoic2h1dHRlcnN0b2NrLW1lZGlhIn0sIjdXSDZNR0R5YTd3Q2kwMDF3YVdDenBITXFNMCJd%2Fshutterstock_1174351939.jpg&pi=33421636&m=1174351939&src=amBXYY-X-a41abUuJBHm4A-1-48">Shutterstock</a></span></figcaption></figure><p><em>Mathematician Gihan Marasingha specialises in setting devilishly difficult number conundrums, including for BBC Radio 4. Can you solve his latest problem?</em></p>
<p>Each day for a week, a tennis player is to receive a number of tennis rackets as a gift. She knows that she’ll get a different number of rackets on each of the seven days and is told exactly how many she’ll receive in total. Using only this information, she deduces that on at least one day she’ll be presented with at least ten rackets. What is the minimum total number of rackets she could receive for her to know this? </p>
<h2>The solution (spoiler alert)</h2>
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<span class="caption">It’s all about pigeonholes.</span>
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<p>She’ll be given at least 43 rackets. Any fewer and she couldn’t <em>guarantee</em> she would receive ten or more on any one day. For example, if the total was 42, she could receive 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 (= 42) – and not necessarily get ten in one go. </p>
<p>This puzzle is based on the so-called pigeonhole principle. If more than <em>n</em> pigeons are to be placed in <em>n</em> pigeonholes, then at least one pigeonhole must contain at least two pigeons.</p>
<p>The pigeonhole principle has striking consequences. You might wonder, for instance, how likely it is for two people in London to have the same number of hairs on their head. To make the problem interesting, we’ll only consider non-bald Londoners.</p>
<p>There are more than eight million Londoners. These are our “pigeons”. We put each Londoner into a pigeonhole labelled with the number of hairs on his or her head. Humans have 100,000 head hair follicles, on average. The number of follicles are the pigeonholes. Even taking into account variance from the average and bald Londoners, there are vastly more pigeons than pigeonholes. This proves that at least two non-bald Londoners have exactly the same number of hairs on their head.</p>
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<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Gihan Marasingha does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Can you outsmart our maths mastermind? The solution’s in.Gihan Marasingha, Senior Lecturer, Mathematics, University of ExeterLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/787762017-06-02T11:43:07Z2017-06-02T11:43:07ZThe Conversation Quiz – #14<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/172009/original/file-20170602-18748-l9x5vx.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
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Have you been paying attention?Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK editionJeffery Uzoukwu, Assistant Section EditorLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/768342017-04-27T16:21:50Z2017-04-27T16:21:50ZThe Conversation quiz #9: what fraction of researchers around the world are women?<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/167049/original/file-20170427-15112-dxuvyf.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
</span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/young-scientist-looking-through-microscope-laboratory-529380244?src=yKNFMuj5jzx5tbbZGFUiCQ-1-19">Likoper/Shutterstock</a></span></figcaption></figure><iframe id="quizWidget-408222" width="100%" height="700px" frameborder="0" border="none" src="https://www.qzzr.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzQwODIyMg"></iframe><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/76834/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Fingers on buzzers.Gemma Ware, Head of AudioFiona Lally, Section AssistantLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/764932017-04-21T10:33:03Z2017-04-21T10:33:03ZThe Conversation Quiz – #8<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/166133/original/file-20170420-20082-1x314t5.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Pressmaster / shutterstock</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe id="quizWidget-404192" width="100%" height="700px" frameborder="0" border="none" src="https://www.qzzr.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzQwNDE5Mg"></iframe><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/76493/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Test your knowledge against a week of Conversation content.Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK editionFiona Lally, Section AssistantLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/763142017-04-20T22:44:59Z2017-04-20T22:44:59ZWeekly Quiz: in what year were women granted the right to vote in Australia?<iframe id="quizWidget-402705" width="100%" height="700px" frameborder="0" border="none" src="https://www.qzzr.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzQwMjcwNQ"></iframe><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/76314/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Ten questions to test your knowledge. Ready to play?Molly Glassey, Digital Editor, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/762502017-04-13T14:42:03Z2017-04-13T14:42:03ZThe Conversation quiz – #7<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/165275/original/image-20170413-11758-1kjvyq7.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Kisialiou Yury / shutterstock</span></span></figcaption></figure><p>No googling!</p>
<iframe id="quizWidget-399434" width="100%" height="700px" frameborder="0" border="none" src="https://www.boombox.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzM5OTQzNA"></iframe><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/76250/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Test your knowledge from a week of Conversation content.Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK editionLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/758932017-04-07T08:47:25Z2017-04-07T08:47:25ZThe Conversation quiz – #6<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/164342/original/image-20170406-16663-3qz19d.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Vlad_Chorniy / shutterstock</span></span></figcaption></figure><p>Have you been paying attention at the back?</p>
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Test your knowledge from a week of Conversation content.Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK editionLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/755632017-03-31T11:47:01Z2017-03-31T11:47:01ZThe Conversation quiz #5<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/163447/original/image-20170331-31733-cbsbfa.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">
</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">via shutterstock.com</span></span></figcaption></figure><p>Test how closely you’ve been reading The Conversation this week with these ten questions. </p>
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Ten questions. On your marks. Get set. Go.Gemma Ware, Head of AudioLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/751072017-03-24T11:57:06Z2017-03-24T11:57:06ZThe Conversation quiz – #4<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/162374/original/image-20170324-12132-12hxxfo.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Egg heads arise.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">shutterstock.com</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe id="quizWidget-385973" width="100%" height="700px" frameborder="0" border="none" src="https://www.boombox.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzM4NTk3Mw"></iframe><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/75107/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Ten questions to test your knowledge from a week of Conversation content.Annabel Bligh, Business & Economy Editor and Podcast Producer, The Conversation UKLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.