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Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed

Posted by Owen Densmore on Jul 19, 2007; 12:59am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Despite-the-Web-Americans-Remain-Woefully-Ill-Informed-tp524232p524235.html

On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Randy Burge wrote:
>> A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
>> shows that Americans, on average, are less able to correctly answer
>> questions about current events than they were in 1989.
> For a country of 300 million people there are as many current events.
> I'm glad if the distribution of interest in these events is spread  
> about
> a bit.   Freedom!

I sorta have to agree: Just how IMPORTANT are any of these questions?

> The five questions:
> Who is the vice president?
> Who is your state's governor?
> Does the US have a trade deficit or surplus?
> Which party controls the House of Representatives?
> Is the chief justice of the Supreme Court a liberal, moderate, or  
> conservative?

If you were to be able to ask 5 questions that you would LIKE folks  
to know the answer to, would any of these be on it?  I think only  
one .. the trade deficit.

But, man, its scary to know that there's anyone ALIVE in the US who  
cannot answer these.

     -- Owen