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dear god. we're doomed. [REPOST]

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minus1972

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just found this article on CNN, and I'm more than a little frightened about some of the stats they illustrate:

? Thirty-four percent of the young Americans knew that the island used on last season's "Survivor" show was located in the South Pacific, but only 30 percent could locate the state of New Jersey on a map. The "Survivor" show's location was the Marquesas Islands in the eastern South Pacific.
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? On a world map, Americans could find on average only seven of 16 countries in the quiz. Only 89 percent of the Americans surveyed could find their own country on the map.
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? Only 71 percent of the surveyed Americans could locate on the map the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water. Worldwide, three in 10 of those surveyed could not correctly locate the Pacific Ocean.
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What the hell is wrong with these people?!?

EDIT: and what the hell is wrong with people who can't use the search to know they're reposting something??? jebus.
 
What's wrong? Public education, crappy parents, MTV "Shiny things" society.

If people would turn their TVs off every once in a while, and read a freakin book here and there, it would do wonders.
 
Originally posted by: minus1972
just found this article on CNN, and I'm more than a little frightened about some of the stats they illustrate:

? Thirty-four percent of the young Americans knew that the island used on last season's "Survivor" show was located in the South Pacific, but only 30 percent could locate the state of New Jersey on a map. The "Survivor" show's location was the Marquesas Islands in the eastern South Pacific.
Click to expand...
? On a world map, Americans could find on average only seven of 16 countries in the quiz. Only 89 percent of the Americans surveyed could find their own country on the map.
Click to expand...
? Only 71 percent of the surveyed Americans could locate on the map the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water. Worldwide, three in 10 of those surveyed could not correctly locate the Pacific Ocean.
Click to expand...

What the hell is wrong with these people?!?
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I still ge eth Atlantic and Pacific mixed up. I have noneed for this knowledge. Same thing with geography. I don't care where France is and truth is, I don't think i'd find it on a map. italy is shaped like a boot. Iraq will eventually be a piece of glass. Is that like a body of water?

OK, the US, everyone should know.
 
The international survey was conducted for the National Geographic by RoperASW. The results are based on face-to-face interviews with at least 300 men and women aged 18 to 24 in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Britain and the United States.
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Thats only about 33 young people per country . . . a pretty small sample.

Actually that's a downright ridiculously small number to be drawing generalizations from.

 
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