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Ya they're can. People ARE that stupid.
 
Kandahar said:
Ya they're can. People ARE that stupid.
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I typed possible instead of possibly and I make similar typos all the time. I also constantly have to go back and fix their vs they're. That in itself does not make me stupid. Does it? :shock: :doh
 
talloulou said:
I typed possible instead of possibly and I make similar typos all the time. I also constantly have to go back and fix their vs they're. That in itself does not make me stupid. Does it? :shock: :doh
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Heh, no. But anyone who can't answer the questions on that video is certainly stupid. I wish I could say that those people didn't exist, or that most of the correct responses were edited out...but I would have to guess that they did very minimal editing to make that video.
 
Are you kidding, this country ashames me sometimes. No surprise at all.
 
talloulou said:
I typed possible instead of possibly and I make similar typos all the time. I also constantly have to go back and fix their vs they're. That in itself does not make me stupid. Does it? :shock: :doh
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It just means you didn't learn with phonics.
Few of our generation did, unless they attended private school, or unless their parents ordered that oft-ridiculed "Hooked on Phonics" system off late-night infomercial TV.
Phonics was out of vogue in the majority of public school systems by the 1980s.

If you had learned to read with phonics, you would not likely make this (or any) mistake, because in your head you would be thinking "the-ire" versus "they-ree", instead of thinking, "there" versus "there".
If you see what I mean.
When you have become proficient at sounding things out phonologically, you will rarely if ever make spelling errors.
I don't see why most educators have abandoned this teaching system.
Perhaps it has some down side I'm not aware of.
 
Trajan Octavian Titus said:
Can someone please tell me the questions my volumes broken.
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It's 9 minutes long, but here's a few:

1. Name a country that begins with "U"
Answers: Yugoslavia, Utah, Utopia

2. What is the religion of Israel?
Answers: Islamic, Catholic

3. What religion are Buddhist monks?
Answer: Islamic

4. Who won the Vietnam War?
Answer: We did...wait, were we even in the Vietnam War?

5. Who is Fidel Castro?
Answer: A singer

6. How many sides does a triangle have?
Answers: 4, none, one

7. What is the currency used in the United Kingdom?
Answers: What is the United Kingdom?, American money, Queen Elizabeth Money
 
Kandahar said:
It's 9 minutes long, but here's a few:

1. Name a country that begins with "U"
Answers: Yugoslavia, Utah, Utopia
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Ukraine, Uganda, United States, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, United Kingdom.

2. What is the religion of Israel?
Answers: Islamic, Catholic
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Actually Christian, Islamic, and Jewish would all be correct.

3. What religion are Buddhist monks?
Answer: Islamic
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Wow. What weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers.

4. Who won the Vietnam War?
Answer: We did...wait, were we even in the Vietnam War?
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I'd say no one.

5. Who is Fidel Castro?
Answer: A singer
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A **** sucker.

6. How many sides does a triangle have?
Answers: 4, none, one
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WTF??? People can't be that stupid.

7. What is the currency used in the United Kingdom?
Answers: What is the United Kingdom?, American money, Queen Elizabeth Money
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Have they switched to the Euro or do they use pounds still and wtf is a quid?
 
Did somebody see that guy put a sticker on Australia when asked where Iran was?

Tony Blair is an skater? Wtf.....Why dont I ever get asked random questions by fake news sources :(...

3 world wars? And it was some old *** man to....Then they asked him what Hiroshima and Nagasaki were famous for and he still didnt know.
 
O M F G !:shock: :eek:

Hopefully that was not an accurate cross-section of America.

WE FREAKIN NEED TO DRASTICLY IMPROVE OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM!!!!
 
Okay. I'm agreeing with all of you saying these people dumb... butttt, I want to point out that when asked with a question(even simple ones like these) out of the blue, by a stranger with a camera, you might freeze up; the correct answers were obviously cut out; and this doesn't represent America as a whole. For all we knew they asked the questions a million times and if only 15(or w/e the number is) were answered incorrectly that's still a damn good score.

All I'm gonna say is I'm glad everyone on here can answer everyone of those questions. :)
 
Hatuey said:
Did somebody see that guy put a sticker on Australia when asked where Iran was?

Tony Blair is an skater? Wtf.....Why dont I ever get asked random questions by fake news sources :(...

3 world wars? And it was some old *** man to....Then they asked him what Hiroshima and Nagasaki were famous for and he still didnt know.
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Yeah, it was the old dude that surprised me too.

Take this nugget with you to bed tonight: every one of those people probably vote.

Edit: did you notice that Australia was labelled "North Korea"?
 
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BudLizard101 said:
Okay. I'm agreeing with all of you saying these people dumb... butttt, I want to point out that when asked with a question(even simple ones like these) out of the blue, by a stranger with a camera, you might freeze up; the correct answers were obviously cut out; and this doesn't represent America as a whole. For all we knew they asked the questions a million times and if only 15(or w/e the number is) were answered incorrectly that's still a damn good score.

All I'm gonna say is I'm glad everyone on here can answer everyone of those questions. :)
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It's...sort of...forgivable that people would get the answers wrong, and in fact the most intellectually honest answer in all of that was "I have no intelligent guess." What was unforgivable were the people who fully admitted not knowing the answers, but declared that military actions against countries they didn't know anything about were needed.

For example consider the question, "Should we invade Iran from the east, the west the north or the south?" The appropriate answer from somebody with zero knowledge of military strategy is "How the hell should I know?" That's fine. Not knowing and then answering "from the east" is not.
 
Adrian said:
What was unforgivable were the people who fully admitted not knowing the answers, but declared that military actions against countries they didn't know anything about were needed.
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Agreed. But at least they admitted they were talking out of their a$$. That's already better than 99% of politicians. :lol:
 
There are some people that are that stupid, and those are the only ones that were shown. The footage is handpicked to produce the desired result, it is in no way any form of scientific survey to probe the knowledge of the average American. They just wanted to try to make Americans look stupid, so there was not way they would show people giving correct answers.
 
Ikari said:
There are some people that are that stupid, and those are the only ones that were shown. The footage is handpicked to produce the desired result, it is in no way any form of scientific survey to probe the knowledge of the average American. They just wanted to try to make Americans look stupid, so there was not way they would show people giving correct answers.
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So how large was the level of bias do you think? What percentage of the American population do you think these people represent.

I am more than confident with assuming that it was a fair representation of most of our electorate. I mean honestly, 44% see Christ's second coming in their lifetimes as "probably going to happen," 22% are CERTAIN.

Americans aren't concerned with knowledge, they're concerned with passing the test, and getting the job. And as much as I hate to generalize, I feel very safe doing so in this instance, intellectually.
 
I have no data that would tell me how representative that "sample" was. I would imagine perchance in the 15-20% range; but that's nothing more than a wild guess. There isn't enough information to make an informed guess.
 
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