America By the Numbers

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Agathon

* Lasers work by focusing sound waves (61 percent of men compared with 30 percent of women).

? I thought it was light using mirrors.

I was assuming that the correct answer to that was "false"...

[Agathon]

Agahon, my point is that life and people are neither equitable or equal. I had always thought those whom I worked with could do my job once taught but found out otherwise. Only certain people I taught could perform many of my programming positions. The rest could not fathom it. So in the attempt to make all equal no one is allowed to live up to their potential without non-government help.

That's not what welfare is for. Welfare exists so that things get done - things virtually everyone wants - that the market doesn't.

[Agathon]

I was assuming that the correct answer to that was "false"...

I thought they meant right or wrong.

If they did, it's just another reason to laugh at America

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by cia
If the European Union were a state in the USA it would belong to the poorest group of states. France, Italy, Great Britain and Germany have lower GDP per capita than all but four of the states in the United States. In fact, GDP per capita is lower in the vast majority of the EU-countries (EU 15) than in most of the individual American states.

Of course, comparing GDP per capita is next to meaningless. You can at least step up one level to compare PPP istead. No, PPP isn't completely accurate either, but it is far more accurate than GDP per capita.

[KrazyHorse]

-Electrons are smaller than atoms. (True)

Electrons have no well-defined size...

-The center of the Earth is hot. (True)

Pffft. It's not even on the weak scale.

[Dis]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I wonder if Oerdin think it makes the US look good to have its national science foundation unable to run a scientific poll.

goverment organizations are incomeptant in every level. Including the military. I was in the Navy, I saw how innefficient it was.

This is what you commies need to learn. The goverment cannot solve our problems. They cannot do anything right. Including polls.

[Agathon]

This is what you commies need to learn. The goverment cannot solve our problems. They cannot do anything right. Including polls.

Only the government can solve certain problems. That is what Americans need to learn.

[KrazyHorse]

The government tends to run things pretty well where I'm from. Americans just don't know how to hold their politicians responsible.

[Dis]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The government tends to run things pretty well where I'm from. Americans just don't know how to hold their politicians responsible.

then why are you Canadians always *****ing about your slow health care system?

[KrazyHorse]

When was the last time you heard me *****? I'm not responsible for whiny homo Albertan semi-Americans...

[Ramo]

then why are you Canadians always *****ing about your slow health care system?

Why are us Americans always *****ing about unaffordable health insurance?

Single payer health insurance.

[Agathon]

But let's not let the truth get in the way of the Great Leader, who is leading a world democratic revolution against something.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
When was the last time you heard me *****? I'm not responsible for whiny homo Albertan semi-Americans...

Leave him alone. He's turning commie... slowly.

[Pyrodrew]

But let's not let the truth get in the way...

Using the same testing technology used in many national and international tests, the responses to these nine items were converted into a 0-100 scale.[4] The mean score for American adults on the Index of Scientific Construct Understanding was 55

Something more recent (oh, it has the earth & sun question too):


Science and technology good:


Where did you go:

[Pyrodrew]

But let's not let the truth get in the way too

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind04/c7/c7h.htm

Very few Americans admit to not being interested in S&T issues. Only about 10 percent of surveyed Americans said they were not interested in news about scientific discoveries or new inventions and technologies. In Europe, however, half of surveyed residents said they were not interested in S&T.

Neither Americans nor Europeans got high marks in a 2001 quiz designed to measure their knowledge of science. Out of 13 questions, Americans answered an average of 8.2 correctly, Europeans 7.8.

Science knowledge in the United States and Europe is not improving. Respondents' ability to answer most questions about science has remained essentially unchanged since the 1990s, with one exception: more people now know that antibiotics do not kill viruses. This may be attributable to media coverage of drug-resistant bacteria, an important public health issue.

More Americans now agree with the theory of evolution. The 2001 NSF survey marked the first time that more than half (53 percent) of Americans answered "true" in response to the statement "human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." (In Europe, 69 percent responded "true.") Whether and how the theory of evolution is taught in public schools remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. science education.

I kept the last quoted paragraph on the theory of evolution to stay on topic , which is laughing/bashing at America.