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75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S

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I will grant you that some kids were fx..ing around with the polsters I have done that. I never give them my real income I just multiply it by 100.

Yet I will say that the survey is close in the general results. When I was still working in the corporate world as an auditor I asked a claim processor to gwt me their instruction files on how they handle foreign claims and the girl/woman sent me their files for New Mexico, Peurto Rico, US Vergin Islands and then I almost fell out of my chair when I say hawaii included in her collection of there thar ferrin procedure files.
 
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Not surprised that the Maniacs as in 16th place of this list and beat out by Georgia and "you lie" South Carolina.
 
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Terminology fail.

If you define "blue state" as a state that voted for Obama, then most of the country is blue anyways.

New Hampshire, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Indiana, and Pennsylvania range from purple to leaning red. Overall that list is pretty balanced between liberal and conservative states.
 
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JakeFromWI said:
OK...here are the 2009 Mean SAT scores by state according to the college board. - See Site Here

Does anyone notice how blue the top 16 is?
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Another person who apparently can't read the fine print.

You've listed the top 16 of the 17 states that have over 60% SAT participation, which are the only ones listed at your link.

As was noted earlier in this thread, students in the Northeast tend to take the SAT while students elsewhere tend to take the ACT.

If you actually look at the SAT scores for those students who take it in those other states (not that it's a good analogy, but hey, you brought it up), you'd see that OK beats the living **** out of every state that you list, with an average SAT of 1703.
 
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Save the bull**** argument about the President of the Congress for another website.
 
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I'll bet they'll remember the name of President Obama, the greatest president who every lived and whoever will live. :lol: :spin:
 
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And if you went by Reagan vs Mondale, these are ALL red states.
 
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Does anyone else notice that they are the whitest states in the country?
 
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Virginia is not really a full blooded blue state.
 
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American said:
I'll bet they'll remember the name of President Obama, the greatest president who every lived and whoever will live. :lol: :spin:
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There's going to be a whole chapter set aside for his ass.:rofl
 
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apdst said:
There's going to be a whole chapter set aside for his ass.:rofl
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Maybe even an entire semester.
 
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American said:
Maybe even an entire semester.
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I wouldn't be a damn bit surprised.
 
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Is this limited to the "rednecks" in Ok?
 
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I think it is fairly apparent that Americans are just generally ignorant.

Young Americans Geographically Illiterate, Survey Suggests

- 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate (Iraq) on a map of the Middle East.
- Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel.
- Nine in ten couldn't find Afghanistan on a map of Asia.
- 54 percent were unaware that Sudan is a country in Africa. Three-quarters of respondents failed to find that country on a map.
- Three-quarters were unaware that a majority of Indonesia's population is Muslim, making it the largest Muslim country in the world.
Young Americans Geographically Illiterate, Survey Suggests
 
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Out of fairness, it would be extremely helpful if somebody had a list of the percentage of students that take each respective test by state. States with a lower percentage of students taking a test are more likely to have higher scores, especially when this is not the norm. This is due to the fact that SAT and ACT tests are not a random sampling, they are comprised of the most motivated and academically prepared students among their peers. When students take the SAT in an ACT dominated region, this would mean they are appealing to schools outside that region- often times private schools in the northeast or larger state schools out west. And if you want to link politics in, those eastern private schools tend to have top notch programs in poli sci, humanities, and business, programs that rely more upon history than larger state schools, which tend to have a bigger balance with science and engineering programs.
 
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Painting with a broad brush will only make you look as ignorant as these individuals unfamiliar with George Washington.
 
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I see what you did there.

For those of you who do not know, Randolph was the first President of the Continental Congress, the first national government of the United States during the American Revolution.
 
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I think you are missing the point... people **** with pollsters. Then people, such as the OP, actually take these results seriously. I find it hard to believe that any high school student without a mental disorder thinks that our current President was also our first President. :doh
 
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EgoffTib said:
I see what you did there.

For those of you who do not know, Randolph was the first President of the Continental Congress, the first national government of the United States during the American Revolution.
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Off topic, but would the continental congress be considered a past government of our current nation? I guess I always though of that period as a transitional authority, and that the history of the (current) U.S. didn't start until after the revolution and the United States was recognized abroad. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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Thread: I use numbers and charts to justify my irritating political tendencies without thinking deeper about why students are not producing the desired outcome.
 
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where is this statistic coming from it just sounds like a lie
 
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Well when you read from maps like this it's no surprise.

 
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The United States, as a political entity and as a country, began during the revolution.

The current government of the United States was created in 1788 upon ratification of the current Constitution.
 
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