Battle of the Jay-Walkers

[Aethian]

These kids make me feel so smart...as well as cry for our future.

http://www.toptvbytes.com/index.aspx...8-0890e7fe503b

[hopie144]

Oh. My. God.

So, I didn't know Alaska was an island.....

[Aethian]

*snerks* Bad...

[smileyeagle1021]

so, why are all the pretty ones so stupid... I mean Zach was attractive until he opened his mouth

and I would have gotten the question about Christopher Columbus wrong too... I though he was born in Spain

[Aethian]

He worked for the Queen of Spain, but yea I can see why some people would get that one wrong. Specially since I remember one year our teacher had us read handouts on him instead of the book because the book was wrong.

[PepperElf]

i will say tho... Jay is wrong.

There are only 46 states. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths not states.

... but when it comes to this three... I'd be glad if they at least understood that Canada is not a US State.

what's sad is that it's been about 20 years since 9th grade for me... but not only do I remember that there's 2 senators per state, but WHY... (long explanation tho and kinda off topic).


what's scary is that ... i don't think they realize they're not that smart. I think they honestly believe that they're intelligent.

[Nyoibo]

The only one of those I got wrong was about the senators, but hell, I'm not American, why would I need to know?

I weep for your country.

[One-Fang]

what's scary is that ... i don't think they realize they're not that smart. I think they honestly believe that they're intelligent.

I recall some study many years ago that apparently proved that the dumber you are, the smarter you think you are.

Basically, when you're ignorant of what else is out there that you could possibly know about, you think you know everything. Because you just simply don't realise what there is to know.

The more you know, the more you realise there is that you don't know, and the dumber you feel.

So ... there was a clear inverse relationship between the self impression of how good your general knowledge is, and the actual general knowledge score. Those who thought their general knowledge rocked scored badly, and those who had a really good grasp on a lot of things thought they had bad general knowledge.

So ... do you feel smart, punk?

[smileyeagle1021]

I weep for your country.

hey Americans are NOT stupid

[Aethian]

*cries* That is bad Eagle... *cries and whimpers sadly*

[One-Fang]

That was fun, but you do have to wonder how many correct answers they tossed out in the edit room. I wonder what the ratio of right/wrong answers was like? I mean, obviously the wrong ones are the funny ones to include, but did they lose half their tape to right ones? Three quarters? None at all?

[smileyeagle1021]

So ... there was a clear inverse relationship between the self impression of how good your general knowledge is, and the actual general knowledge score. Those who thought their general knowledge rocked scored badly, and those who had a really good grasp on a lot of things thought they had bad general knowledge.

So ... do you feel smart, punk?

that is SO true... last week in my econ class, sense we finished early in the semester the professor decided, just for fun we'd do that american civics test that was in the news for people averaging 49% on it... I thought that I did OK, but though I missed quite at least a few questions... I ended up getting a 97%... missing only ONE question... the hotshot sitting next to me who thought that he knew all this stuff, he was going to ace it... ended up getting a 59%

[PepperElf]

good point.
personally i got most of that test right except for a couple of questions of groups. eh looks like all that social studies paid off.

also i'm not sure but i think they also used a map without country names, or names in a different language... now granted that doesn't excuse them from picking Australia and New Zealand as being North and South Korea... but it wouldn't be as easy for one of us to read it perhaps...

[SailorMan]

Oh. My. God.

So, I didn't know Alaska was an island.....

Actually, I have it on good authority (Governer Palin) that it shares a land border with Russia. She can see the Kremlin from her kitchen window!

[Nyoibo]

also i'm not sure but i think they also used a map without country names, or names in a different language... now granted that doesn't excuse them from picking Australia and New Zealand as being North and South Korea... but it wouldn't be as easy for one of us to read it perhaps...

Nope, the names were printed in English.