Survey Reveals Geographic Illiteracy USA

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

NEW STUDY
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography.html


TAKE THE SURVEY
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/question_01.html

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

shame that for the question

Which of the following ranges contains the correct population of the United States today?
       
Between 10 million and 50 million
Between 150 million and 350 million
Between 500 million and 750 million
Between 1 billion and 2 billion
I Don’t Know


AMERICAN KIDS HAVE THE LOWEST SCORE (25% got it rigth ... their OWN country ...) !!!

[Axl_owns_dexter]

We know our public education system is a joke, we don't need Europeans mocking us because of it.  I got an idea, I'll be respectful of France's internal affairs, and you can be respectful of ours.   

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

take ?the survey really , pay attention to scores for questions 11, 12, 13,14 ... striking.

it's old, but they re-did the survey recently

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/answer_01.html

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

We know our public education system is a joke, we don't need Europeans mocking us because of it.  I got an idea, I'll be respectful of France's internal affairs, and you can be respectful of ours.   

nah, we're stupid too
we're all stupid

[Mal Brossard]

I went to private schools my whole life and got 17/20 on that test.

HOWEVER, on my first day of American Civilization my junior year, the teacher handed us a map of the US and told us to label all the states and capitals that we could.  Only one of us got all of them right-- me.  Schools don't do enough to teach kids about the world around them.  In 6th grade, by the end of the year we were supposed to be able to fill in all the countries on a map of the world after studying world history from 5000 BC to 1980.  No one could do it.  The best score was 68% (once again, mine).  Granted, the fact I won the school's geography bee in the two years they held it was enough proof that no one knows geography anymore.

Schools don't give a shit about students learning anything more than what they want to teach.  In times of students being suspended for telling a teacher about finding a flaw in the school's computer security systems, we need to expand the sphere of what learning is acceptable in schools.  Learning goes beyond what is taught.  If a student wants to learn something on their own they should be allowed to.  At the same time, they shouldn't be expected to learn things just on their own, like geography these days for example.

"Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" --Alan Keyes

[Sakib]

those questions were easy. I got about 3 wrong

[SLCPUNK]

We know our public education system is a joke, we don't need Europeans mocking us because of it.  I got an idea, I'll be respectful of France's internal affairs, and you can be respectful of ours.   

We should be mocked...........

Your response is a good indication of why we are.

Please pass the freedom fries...........

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

those questions were easy. I got about 3 wrong

i got 0 i think ...

[Walk]

I only missed the CSI one. What what that one doing there? 

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

I only missed the CSI one. What what that one doing there? 

yeah i thought it was kinda wierd, i got lucky on that one, dont even know what i picked

[jazjme]

did well 20/20

[Gunner80]

We know our public education system is a joke, we don't need Europeans mocking us because of it.  I got an idea, I'll be respectful of France's internal affairs, and you can be respectful of ours.   

We should be mocked...........

Your response is a good indication of why we are.

Please pass the freedom fries...........

SLC sure hates this country, but loves his homes and freedom.

[Timothy]

did well 20/20

Thats what I got too.

[Guns N RockMusic]

I only missed the CSI one, soory I don't watch that much TV.  I'd love to see our younger European crowd take this test, just to see how it compares.  I'd be willing to wager it'd be the same.  The problem isn't that Americans are stupid, the problem is that very few people seek out higher education.  I'm not saying you have to goto college to be educated, but it makes access to information alot easier as well as providing you a base as to how to obtain that information.  If Americans are so stupid, they why is America the world's only superpower?  It seems kind of contradictory and illogical to claim that the stupid rule the world.

[Sterlingdog]

I think a lot of those questions you would know if you are someone who pays attention to current events and world affairs.  You aren't going to know which country had an earthquake in 2005 because you got an A in geography in high school or college.  You'll know it if you keep up on world news though. 

[SLCPUNK]

We know our public education system is a joke, we don't need Europeans mocking us because of it.  I got an idea, I'll be respectful of France's internal affairs, and you can be respectful of ours.   

We should be mocked...........

Your response is a good indication of why we are.

Please pass the freedom fries...........

SLC sure hates this country, but loves his homes and freedom.

SLCPUNK doesn't like dumb people, who cry when somebody dares to say anything remotely negative about the USA. SLCPUNK also dislikes the mind numbing finger pointing at the French whenever those dumb people can't think of anything else to say. SLCPUNK also thinks that this type of behavior only reinforces the stereotype that we are a bunch of illiterate tools who don?t know our asses from a hole in the ground.

If Americans are so stupid, they why is America the world's only superpower?  It seems kind of contradictory and illogical to claim that the stupid rule the world.

Please examine that statement and explain to me how it is not stupid.........

[Axl_owns_dexter]

SLCPUNK doesn't like dumb people, who cry when somebody dares to say anything remotely negative about the USA.

So, I'm a dumb person who cries?  Feeling a little judgemental?

Anyway, I only ask for some level of respect.  Immature mockery isn't cool, and I won't stoop to that level to trash some other society I don't live in.  I have no problem with pointing out facts, but mockery is stupid.

[SLCPUNK]

Anyway, I only ask for some level of respect.  Immature mockery isn't cool, and I won't stoop to that level to trash some other society I don't live in.  I have no problem with pointing out facts, but mockery is stupid.

He was not mocking us, that was my point.

On the contrary I found your response was embarrassing.

[godiva]

On the Dutch news I saw today that most Americans have no clue where Iraq or Afghanistan are. For people who can read Dutch it?s on www.rtlnieuws.nl, under ?opmerkelijk?.