We are a country of maroons. Pew Research conducted a survey of Americans last week regarding basic facts that every American should know about the world. It consisted of 12 questions. I got all 12 correct in the one minute it took me to complete the quiz. The results of the quiz on a national basis are mind boggling and confirms everything we think about the ignorant zombie masses staring at their iGadgets. Being connected doesn’t make you smart or aware of what is happening in the world.
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Get a load of these results:
- Only 1% of Americans got all 12 question correct. I made it into the 1%. Yippee!!!
- 58% of Americans got less than 6 answers correct.
- 33% of Americans got less than 4 answers correct. It’s a multiple choice quiz with only four options. You could guess randomly and get 3 answers correct.
- Sorry women. Men answered 11 of the 12 questions more accurately than women.
- It does appear that college makes you smarter, but not necessarily smart.
- Young people are dumb. Hysterically, the only question they aced was the level of the minimum wage. I guess they know that one because that’s what they are making, based upon their clear lack of intelligence.
- Only 33% of Americans know the unemployment rate.
- Only 20% of Americans know that Social Security is the highest spending item in the budget.
- Only 20% of Americans know the poverty rate.
- Only 24% of Americans know the name of the chairperson of the Federal Reserve.
The ignorance is breathtaking to behold. But, I bet that more than 75% of ignorant Americans know the name of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s bastard baby. If so few people know who runs the Federal Reserve, imagine how many Americans understand inflation and currency debasement. We are truly doomed. And we deserve everything we are going to get. We are a country of morons, run by morons, for morons. Morons unite.
11/12 for a high school graduate white (they didn’t ask) male aged 51. I did not know the poverty rate.
I missed Iran and thought the interest on the national debt had already surpassed Social Security spending. So 10/12 for me… it’s a good quiz, though. I can see why so many people would miss some of these questions; you have to read alternative news sources to even see coverage some of these topics.
I want to hear bb’s score.
bb got 14 out of 12
I got 11 out of 12. Thought the interest on the debt was greater than SS.
I’m not a big watcher of Fox – but Bill O’Reilly has this ‘man in the street segment’ with a guy named Watters.
They claim that they don’t edit or cherry pick the responses. In a word, the ignorance is astounding. They held up a picture of Biden – and most people couldn’t recognize him. The younger people are unbelievably stupid. I guess that their education was more focused on gay rights, and twerking.
Sometimes the interviewer will ask a question like “What do think about Obama” – this black guy say “He’s great” – then the interviewer will say “What are the accomplishments that make him great?” – they can’t give an answer – no basis for their opinion.
What I have noticed is that the more conservative people know the answers.
Missed two, I chose Iran first, then changed it to Afghanistan then back to Iran, then left Afghanistan, missed the poverty question as well.
10/12; wrong on expenditure and poverty questions (though I honestly wonder if those questions, based on “official” stats, have any meaning or correct answers OTHER than interest on national debt and 35% in poverty.)
People want to live their lives, not examine them. That doesn’t make them stupid; it makes them CULPABLE.
Woot! Woot! 12/12.
Even Pew freaking research enjoys steering the conversation, they wanted the answer of Syria concerning ISIS/ISIL, and conveniently left out the whole Iraq thing.
Just proves he whom controls the counting controls the country.
And he whom controls the message, moves opinions.
Yes, ‘murkins are not very bright, and our education system does nothing to alter that.
11/12 I missed the poverty rate question. I just assumed that if the FSA comprises 49% of the populace the poverty rate must be at least 25%. If only 15% are below the poverty line, why are the other 34% getting free shit?
Finished in under 60 seconds … didn’t hardly have to think about any of the questions.
Got 10/12.
I missed “Male/Female” and my age ….. I thought they were trick questions.
My home schooled 17 year old got 9 out of 12. 🙂
11/12. I missed the poverty question; thought it was higher. I’m not surprised at the scores of the crowd here. We may be shit-throwing monkeys, but we’re informed shit-throwing monkeys!
12 of 12. but the poverty rate and Social Security ones were semi guesses. But all I win is a couple more years of obamanomics. Bummer.
11 of 12, missed the poverty question. I see a pattern, besides how do they really measure poverty. Funny, I never watch news on TV and the only news I get on the radio is the traffic and weather channel. I shouldn’t be, but I am often surprised at how ignorant the average and often above average person is, especially when related to the news and current events. Admin, I was too dumb and lazy to get my MBA. maybe that’s why I didn’t get a 100 on the quiz.
Thank you,
Bob.
12/12. Piece of cake quiz.
Here’s a good trivia question for TBPer’s. What state has the most lighthouses? Maine? Nope. North Carolina? Nope. Alaska? Nope. Those were MY answers when someone in our tour group asked the question while my wife and I were touring a lighthouse in Maine. Finally, I got a case of smartass and said Nevada. Got some laughs with that one.
The answer is …….. (scroll down)
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Michigan.
Arizona has the most lighthouses! I got learnt that in da gubmint scrool.
“I missed “Male/Female” and my age ….. I thought they were trick questions.”
—-Sticky
I don’t care what you say, that there’s some funny shit.
SSS,
Does this include all the lighthouses at the miniature golf courses?
Bob
SSS
I was going to say mean things about your age and mental capacities. However, since you said my comment was some funny shit, I shall spare you.
However, next time you give a trivia quiz …… WILL YOU PLEASE GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER IT???!!!!! (I knew the answer.)
More trivia: MI also has ‘Murka’s longest coastline (lower 48).
11 for 12 with 2 wild ass guesses counted as correct answers. A pretty simple test and just think they let us vote. Of course that makes no difference. Elections are just to make us think we have a say in what the government does.
Yes the test was easy, I missed the social security verses the cost of interest on the national debt.
12 for 12 in 45 seconds, or so. Only 40% know who Grandma Janet is. That’s scary.
I got Emancipation Proclamation out of Purple.
Fortunately I also got a participation award, free breakfast and lunch, soshial sekurity dis’bility, and a “Vote Obola!” button.
I missed the FED. poverty line .IF YOU CAN COUNT That’s 11 out of 12 I got right .SEE I IS SMARTER THEN MOST OF YOUs people.I JUST CANT SPELLL.
More Michigan trivia, we have the worlds largest population of muslims outside of the middle east and in that same area we have a huge rock salt mine under most of detroit and northern Michigan with over a hundred miles of roads 1200 feet below the surface, never suffered a collapse, never suffered a death.
I think the mooslums had it shut down for religious reasons so they could build the western worlds largest mosque……..
North West in case you were wondering.
10 of 12 correct
My 2 wrong answers were a little too futuristic.
10/12
I missed poverty and Iran.
12/12. Just glad they didn’t ask about anything on cable TV or Facebook, since I don’t have those. The test was sexist, though. Not a single question about feelings.
10/12 – Poverty and SS [I thought things were worse than they really are – must be the websites I frequent]
11/12 missed on the poverty rate, although one could make the case that using gov stats. is wrong and so there fore I’m right. I claim 12/12.
Stuck
“Finished in under 60 seconds.”
Ms. Freud said that applies to more than just quizzes
12/12 here! And I’m under 29 and a HS graduate. I did some what guess on the Shai or sunni mooslums.
@TE That’s funny I was thinking the exact same thing Iraq was the first country I thought of lol.
The most surprising to me is how many do not know what the biggest fed expenditure is. We are doomed.
Hardy har har, Admin.
I don’t have to think about THAT either. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.
Stucky is exaggerating again. I am lucky to even get to the wham. He never makes it to the bam.
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The dude is the middle is kind of hot, in a Jim Belushi sort of way.
11 out of 12. Missed the Shia/Sunni one in Iran. But fuck, I’m an old man and they al look alike.
I’m an Aussie who last visited the USA 20 years ago.
I got one wrong: the minimum wage rate.
God help you Yanks!
12 of 12, and I don’t even live in the US, took a guess on the minimum wage question and got lucky.
TBP education FTW, thanks Admin!
@card802: “More Michigan trivia, we have the worlds largest population of muslims outside of the middle east”
Perhaps largest concentration as a state within the US, but far from largest outside the Middle East, unless Michigan now has 210 million residents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Indonesia#Census_Data_regarding_Religion
i guess us canucks aren’t that smart….. (but we stayed out of Iraq first couple go a’rounds) got me a 7/12 if you take out these 3 i got wrong then not doing too bad i thought…..
10.50 isn’t your min wage??? damn you guys are screwed down there
and if your taxes go more to old age than the debts while only 15% and not 35% are under the cheap seats then things must be looking up in a strange way.
Same as ragman. I was 11 of 12, missed the poverty rate question with the same answer for the same reason. Still put me in the top 4%
I got 9/12. I knew the answers to most of the US related questions. Did not know much about ISIS and other international questions. I am from India.
I got 11/12. I guessed the poverty rate incorrectly. That’s pretty sad seeing as I’m at the poverty level. I jest larned me sumthin. I’m going to pop this on my smart-aleck 26 year old nephew when he comes over. I can hardly wait.
I got 11.5. And 12/12 on the questions.
Mrs. Freud-Dam it!!! Those erotic pictures got me all stirred up.
11 of 12. I got the poverty question wrong. Oh well I thought you Yanks were poorer. I said 25% versus 15%.
@Mabuk and Card
Largest Arab concentration in the country I believe. The home of Henry Ford has become decidedly Hijab wearing. But there are Christian Arabs there too.
So technically not largest Muslim, but largest Arab transplants.
At least that is what I have heard, I’ve never bothered to do any research, just like I’ve never bothered to research how many Christians live in Indonesia.
We are some of the most aware in the country it seems. That doesn’t shock me at all and is a big reason why I’m here.
And penis posts. Yep, that’s it.
Oh yeah, other Michigan trivia:
There is no place in the lower peninsula that is further than five miles from fresh water.
There is also no place that you can get further than that away from a card-carrying unionist/statist/liberal.
So, the best reason to stay alongside the best reason to leave.
Yet I’m still here. *sigh*