another question set done

For my upcoming app (Do You Deserve to Vote?), I've done yet another question set, this time for the "Can You Think Logically?" section. I worked with ChatGPT to refine some of my questions. I never used ChatGPT's suggested wording but always went with my own, redrafting and redrafting until ChatGPT accepted that the question was now both properly logical and properly testing logical thinking. So, no—none of my questions is AI-generated—just AI-verified, and most of my questions passed muster on the first try. The few that needed tweaking needed only minor tweaking because the AI got pedantic about literal meanings and implications. I imagine there will still be gripes and complaints by people who dare the quiz no matter how rigorously I crafted the questions.

This puts me halfway through question-generation. As with my grammar quizzes (like this one or this one), I've created three similar types of questions from which the program will select one randomly to display. The answers beneath the questions will also appear in randomized order, and the questions themselves, while appearing in sets of ten for each section, will also appear in randomized order, so there are at least three levels of randomization. This way, for people who retake the quiz five or ten or twenty or a hundred times, it should never be the exact same quiz twice.

Sections done so far:

1. Do you have a more-than-basic grasp of English?

2. Do you have a more-than-basic education? (science, math, history, geography, art)

3. Can you think logically?

Still to do:

4. How Much Do You Know About Civics?

5. Can You Pass a Basic, Stripped-Down Citizenship Test?

6. How Much Do You Know About Current Politicians' Stands on Today's Issues?

Section (6) is going to require very frequent updating. I'm tempted to add other sections like "Do You Know Who These Politicians Are?" and so on. For Section (2), I could've included music (basic concepts and principles, and maybe genres from classical to folk to rock to jazz to rap to hip-hop to whatever's current), but I'm a musical illiterate. Maybe I'll include it anyway. Nothing is set in stone at this point.

I expect everyone I personally know to blaze through the beta version of this quiz and get a 100% or, at worst, a 95%. These are meant to be basic, basic questions—not trick questions or "gotcha" questions, just the sort of things that a halfway-educated citizen ought to know if they're planning to vote. And of course, the quiz itself has no meaning beyond being a quiz. You can choose to accept whether it validly rates your worth as a voter or not. I don't care. Take the quiz out of curiosity if you want, not out of any earnest desire to see whether you measure up. And rest assured that, no matter how dumb or uneducated you are and no matter what Thomas Jefferson might think (might have thought) about the need for an educated electorate, your right to vote is guaranteed by modern interpretations of the US Constitution, so this quiz won't take anything away from you if you're a moron. Your rights are secure. And while it's tempting to create a database of test results that collect demographic data, I've elected not to do that because such data can be faked.

Should I, however, create a demographic-info section in which people are encouraged to assess their intelligence level as a rating from 1 to 10 the way KeroNgb does in his videos (he usually starts off by asking interviewees how smart they think they are, and most are ego-filled enough to say numbers like 8 or 9, which is hilarious; I would rate myself a solid 2)? Maybe I should, but I already know the data will simply confirm that pride goeth before the fall. America: mostly a nation of idiots and illiterates with some brilliant exceptions.