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Quote by: muck And what exactly is the real world value of being able to locate countries on a map? |
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If your going to bomb a country, best know where it is lest you miss and start a war with China. Also, in a more general sense, not being able to locate a country shows a lack of even cursory knowledge about the place. It's fine unless you are voting to invade the country, in which case it would be nice to know something about it that tv pundits didn't throw at you.
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Subsequently, my current knowledge of the countries and capitols of Africa is severely limited even though at one time in my life I could accurately locate all of them.
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Fine, but you wouldn't place Congo in Australia.
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If we were required to recite all of the countries that start with the letter U every day then we would remember them as well.
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You probably recite one of the countries once a week. How could you not answer the question?
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All of that "idiot probing" is done purely for entertainment. And I also firmly believe that the statistics that have been cited are severely flawed. For instance, the statistic that 50% of adult Americans are not literate is idiotic. Many Americans are fully literate in their native languages and since the United States is the destination of most of the world's immigrants it is pretty inaccurate to state that Americans are illiterate when they are simply not literate in the most commonly used language of the country.
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Err, no. Immigration level is not that high. 73% are white so unless they only speak Germain and non-whites, suddenly aren't literate..
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Quote by: compug I'm not even sure why you would even bring this up. The length of time it took to edit a video, is totally irrelevant information. |
it is relevant because it shows a lesser agenda. It isn't like they took this film and filmed every American and just took the dumb answers. No, they just went out one day, maybe two or three, and asked people these questions. Should we count how many they found that couldn't answer the most basic of questions?
"Where was the Berlin Wall?"
You ask 20 random people on your block and I'll do the same here, then we'll compare answers.
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The British people don't know shit either.
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Watched it and the questions were harder. And one of the people he was interviewing was a kid.