Part of the test was to test their ability to evaluate a range of data.

In 2013, a team of researchers held a math test.The exam was administered to over 1,100 American adults,and designed, in part, to test their ability to evaluate sets of data.Hidden among these math problems were two almost identical questions.Both problems
used the same difficult data set,and each had one objectively
correct answer.The first asked about the correlation between rashes and a new skin cream.The second asked about the correlation between crime rates and gun control legislation.
Participants with strong math skills were much more likely
to get the first question correct.But despite being mathematically identical,the results for the second question looked totally different.