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

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
So if 49% cannot find New York. How stupid must those (70-49=) 21% that can find N.Y. but not New Jersey be?

LOL



What was the age group

5-7 Year Old's

[Seneca]

9% of French didn't know what organisation the Euro was the currency of...

Don't they ever get a little bit curious about why all the money changed shape about a year ago...?

[Solver]

Wow... I'm so amazed. These results are real, no doubt...

IMO, a person that is 18 years old but can't find his own country on the map is a ******. I don't care less for USA, yet I know locations of some of their major cities (well Washington and New York for sure ). Then, I'm also pretty sure I know where every European country is, and where is every country that is a world's major.

And I can't find Palestine even after hours of looking at the map...

[aaglo]

Maybe those 9% are very rich (don't pay attention to the prices), and they use only credit cards...

[Sava]

I'm sure a lot of those 11% vote Republican.

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave


LOL



What was the age group

5-7 Year Old's

18-24

[Sava]

I don't like these kinds of polls anyways. They usually test like 1,000 people and state that this represents the entire country

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Originally posted by Sava
I'm sure a lot of those 11% vote Republican.

I am wandering how more Americans know where Argentina is than Israel

[Solver]

Took the survey... not hard... maybe the American stereotype has something right about it...

[Harovan]

Stop bashing the Americans!

They may not have the biggest brains, but the biggest bombs for sure

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Sava
I don't like these kinds of polls anyways. They usually test like 1,000 people and state that this represents the entire country

that's normal prosedure, and usually very accurate.

[Imran Siddiqui]

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics .

[Harovan]

The whole Europe bitches (with good reason) about the miserable education in Germany and I used to agree on this, but when I read this article, I begin to believe, that our schools can't be that bad.

[Arrian]

I'm sure they are better than ours, Sir Ralph, at least with regard to geography...and probably most other subjects as well. Geography is something that is badly neglected (IMO) in U.S. public education. The reason I know far more than the average American about geography isn't because I'm smarter than the average American, but because my father, who was the product of a British education in the 1930s (memories of the Empire, what-what), considered it important and passed that on to me (he also had a gift for making it interesting - he's been to most of the places on that globe thingy). To this day I love maps. *shrug*

I remember having tests on US states & their capitols, which I suck at (I know the states, but could care less about the capitols), but can't remember anything major on world geography, which is sad. As a student of history, I can't imagine trying to understand people & events in a foreign land without first knowing where it is.

These survey results come out every few years, and they are always apalling. When I was a senior in highschool, one study found that over 50% of American HS seniors could not find the PLACE WHERE THEY LIVED on a map.

-Arrian

[Ming]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
that's normal prosedure, and usually very accurate.

Only accurate if you have the right 1,000 people.