12-01-2007, 11:49 AM | #1 |
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American's aren't stupid
A youtube gem. All to be taken with a grain of salt of course.
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12-01-2007, 11:51 AM | #2 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
When does natural selection kick in?
Seriously though, they made quite an effort to find the dumbest people west of the atlantic. |
12-01-2007, 12:10 PM | #3 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
Yes well, not everyone wants to look at current events or basic math. I mean who would? But to say American's aren't stupid isn't to say that we ALL are smart.
If you really want to watch someone flounder over basic education questions you should watch "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader" Get some really interesting people there. Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. Example: This thursday's episode they had a college fratboy and his bro's up. Question: What four words follow "My Country Tis of Thee" in the song 'America'? One of them answered "Oh beautiful, for gracias" Wrong song and even if it were the right song it would still be wrong. Added: Of course it could also be camera schock, where you're on camera and all signs of intelligence vanish instantly. It's scary but you'll find ample idiots in any country. They're not just localised stateside. Still the video is also kind of scary. I'm no genius but I'm still smarter than those people. And I've only got a highschool education so far.
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12-01-2007, 12:35 PM | #4 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
Yes, they broadcast that here as well. It's surprising to see how fast people forget everything they've learned in school. In the last episode I saw, the candidate had every single question wrong. Luckily, her son and his classmates bailed her out every time.
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12-01-2007, 02:48 PM | #5 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
But remember, most of these people don't have jobs that require these facts on a day to day basis. This is the issue I have with education in schools, too many general facts that will serve about 1-5% of your class in their lifetime if at all. A 5th grader knows it because he is constantly being tested on it, asked to revise it. His life is only about homework and teachers at that time. The only reason it's learned is because a teacher is directing him to learn it, and it will probably never come up again in any signifigant matter, trivia games aside.
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12-01-2007, 10:16 PM | #6 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
I knew every single question--and they were easy too.. Kinda scary some of those questions were so simple....
The Tonight show with Jay Leno does this (Don't like Leno--I like Conan) but man, most people didn't even know what the Vice President's name was! Pretty scary.. Glad I have a high IQ I guess.
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Re: American's aren't stupid
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I have a dial-up connection and I am not able to see the video, so I cannot comment on what happened in it. Quote:
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12-02-2007, 10:13 AM | #8 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
They've been doing these sorts of video's forever... you can go anywhere in the world and find people like this, too caught up in their own lives to care to learn what's going on around them.
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Re: American's aren't stupid
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Of course, it isn't quite the same. All they have here is a bunch of teenage delinquents. Perhaps because everyone else knew the answers. I also missed questions like 'what is the religion of Buddist monks?' and 'what state is Kentucky Fried Chicken from?'. |
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12-02-2007, 03:09 PM | #10 |
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Re: American's aren't stupid
Hmmm... if I were in Oz, I'd get a little nervous about all these people thinking that Iran and North Korea are located over there...
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