11% of Americans can't find the USA on a map

[Tuberski]

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Which of the following organizations endorses the euro as the common currency for its members?





World Trade Organization (WTO)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
European Union (EU)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
I Don’t Know









And Americans are dumb??????





ACK!

[Ari Rahikkala]

20/20, even though geography is anything but my strong point. During the first half of the test I just laughed every time I looked at the survey results. During the other half I came closer and closer to crying. But I guess I'll just have to believe now that I'm part of the intellectual elite of the world fnord .

Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.

Internet good, life bad .

[Lord Merciless]

Human race does indeed need further evolution....

[Tuberski]

19/20 Damn Christians!

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[Ari Rahikkala]

I can't understand why so many people didn't know the right answer to that religions question. It's one of the first things you're told in U1 (the first course on Lutheran religion in high school, most people have to take this) in Finland, and I'm sure it was mentioned several times in comprehensive school, too... so it should be pretty standard trivia.

[Lord Merciless]

Many people assumed that China and India are Buddist. Well, China is officially atheist and India is Hindu. The largest Buddist country today is Japan.

As for Christians, people often forget to consider Latin America and Africa.

[Dauphin]

I can't understand why so many people didn't know the right answer to that religions question. It's one of the first things you're told in U1 (the first course on Lutheran religion in high school, most people have to take this) in Finland, and I'm sure it was mentioned several times in comprehensive school, too... so it should be pretty standard trivia

I learnt the order of number of followers of each religion in RE classes. It didn't come up in geography as a direct statement. Not sure if its changed in the past 10 years though.

1) Christianity
2) Islam
3) Hinduism
4) Buddhism
5) Sikhism
6) Judaism.

[Serb]

Re: 11% of Americans can't find the USA on a map

Originally posted by Hurricane
11% of Americans can't find the USA on a map11

It's a joke right?
I just can't imagine that somebody couldn't find his own country on the map.

[Lord Merciless]

Don't laugh just yet, Serb. I bet there is at least as many Russians who can't find Russia on a map.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
Don't laugh just yet, Serb. I bet there is at least as many Russians who can't find Russia on a map.

Too busy looking for the outline of the USSR.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
As for Christians, people often forget to consider Latin America and Africa.

The Mexicans didn't.

[Dis]

Well I forgot about all the Catholics in the latin american countries. I don't consider Catholics part of christianity

Yeah I was thining China was buddhist.

I knew India was Hindu though.

I still think China is buddhist despite what the goverment may say.

[Dis]

And Kudos for those who guessed that Reno is indeed west of Los Angeles California.

Was Reyjevak the correct answer for the western most European capitol? That was my guess. I just can't spell it. Icelanders and their strange language...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Dissident
And Kudos for those who guessed that Reno is indeed west of Los Angeles California.

I've had the benefit of visiting California and Nevada on several occasions. I know the lay of the land.

[Verto]

I took the test and had little trouble.

However, let's not forget this survey only included 3,000 participants, from 9 countries. Do not act as if this survey represents all of America, or any other country whose citizens participated.