Ugh, we desperately need education reform in this country.
I agree. And this is sad that people don't know basic American history. A lot of it has to do with the culture of America's youth today, many simply just don't care to learn or about education. It's a mix of our failing education system and the culture of today's youth that is hurting us.
It totally blows my mind that only 26% of the people polled know we declared our independence of foreign oil. Morons.
No, 84% know who we declared independence from, and 26% don't.
No, 84% know who we declared independence from, and 26% don't.
Maybe the 26% were mostly illegal immigrants. :mrgreen:
It totally blows my mind that only 26% of the people polled know we declared our independence of foreign oil. Morons.
Your Star... you just said 84% and 26%. Add those two numbers up. Not attacking you, and it was obviously an error, but it is kind of funny on a thread like this.
Your Star... you just said 84% and 26%. Add those two numbers up. Not attacking you, and it was obviously an error, but it is kind of funny on a thread like this.
Younger and from the South were the worst, according to the poll.
C'mon CC. Cut her some slack. You know that most people here can't do basic math. Hell, I work in accounting and I pretty gave up here on people being able to do elementry mathematics. I even give Mr. V full passes on bad math. Not going to happen. We're better off trying to get them to use google to fact check before posting. And don't even start on trying to get people to first read what they write before posting to see if it's relevant to what they are responding too. That is clearly too damn hard.
I was just messing with her. Just thought it was funny in this thread and all. And I agree with the whole "simple math" thing. Most people get scared by it. I do all math stuff by hand or in my head. I have no use or need for calculators.
I wish I could do that. You should see the size of some of my excel files at work. I didn't know you could get an excel file that large.
I started off as a math major in college. I've always been able to do simple and somewhat more complicated math in my head, or at least on paper.
Yeah, math was always my weakest subject, lets just say the calculator was my best friend.
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