13-07-2003 05:25									#121
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus Radio? Your age is showing I seem to vaguely recall the term from the '80s, what was it again? (Seriously though, Radio 1 is the only channel I listen to, but only for 'Langs de Lijn' and 'Radio Tour de France' -- the only reasons why I still have one )

I know my age is showing. My hair is turning grey and I'm proud of it

But Radio 1 has a lot more to offer besides sports...

	13-07-2003 05:32									#122
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Radio is a thing of the past, it bores me to death. I prefer a good magazine or news paper to radio for my information (fortunately we still have a few of those -- if not too many). Sports is the only thing that's exciting enough to keep me interested for a sound-only medium, and even then mostly just for the coverage you don't get elsewhere (i.e. live football matches (ALL of them, not just Ajax and Feyenoord) and the part of the day of the Tour that's not on TV).

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	13-07-2003 05:43									#123
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Ah, kids today... Radio can be the most exciting medium there is. Just a microphone and your own imagination providing the pictures...

	13-07-2003 05:53									#124
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quote: Radio? Your age is showing

So what do you in the car? You watch TV or something?

	13-07-2003 06:02									#125
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19/20. I missed the religion question. I suck at tests.

	13-07-2003 06:26									#126
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I prefer public transport and bring along a good book (which is also one of the main reasons why I prefer it: by driving a car, one wastes so much valuable time that could be better spent ). On the extremely rare occassions I do travel by car, it's not my own so I'm driving with other people, in which case the time is passed with conversation (with or without a CD playing in the background).

	13-07-2003 06:43									#127
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This thread just came outta nowhere!!!

	13-07-2003 08:09									#128
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1/20

At least I knew where America was!

	13-07-2003 15:43									#129
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These questions are elementary

20/20

	13-07-2003 17:48									#130
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20/20
The British seem to be the dumbest of Europeans...
No offence, just according to this quiz

	13-07-2003 22:45									#131
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quote: Originally posted by Kramerman err.. by that logic, only Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California border Mexico (only 4 of the 50 states, mind you), and each state has its own school curriculum

Ah, so it's now the disUnited States of America - cos last I heard all the states made up one country...

And that still doesn't explain Canada...

As for smartness, OK we'll call it ignorance - the Americans appear poorly educated compared to the rest of the World. As Geeslaka says, it allows the populace of your country to be easily led like sheep, hence the way that the Bush administration has been able to hoodwink the US population by conveniently forgetting about the fact that the war against Iraq was because of WMD...

Ignorant people have a short attention span...

quote: The British seem to be the dumbest of Europeans... No offence, just according to this quiz

Yeah well we have spent the last few decades trying to catch up with the US - doing rather well too, as you've pointed out...

But we are still far smarter than the Americans considering only 18-24 year olds were quizzed in our country. It is almost as if National Geographic knew the Americans would do poorly and tried to 'sauce' the results by giving the American study a clear advantage - it seems the people they asked were even more ignorant than their worst nightnames!

	13-07-2003 23:14									#132
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In my experience you don't magically gain intelligence* as you get older - so throwing in some trailer park yokels wouldn't exactly help skew the scores.

I got 20/20, though I had some slight trouble finding Afghanistan, way too many countries with flexible borders near the Mid-East. There may be some problems with our education system, but I would bet we're much more immersed in the information age than most countries - meaning why the hell should I memorize useless facts when I have the skill to find them if I ever need them?

Seriously, I'd rather understand the rules of American Football than memorize the location of every 'stan in the world. It's also more usefull in my everyday life - which makes it worth the space.

*they may get experience, but experience != intelligence

edit - that asterik is supposed to mean something...

	14-07-2003 01:31									#133
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quote: Ah, so it's now the disUnited States of America - cos last I heard all the states made up one country... And that still doesn't explain Canada...

um.... the point i was making is that each state has its OWN base education curriculum (not to mention the variation allowed at the local level)... the difference between the Texas curriculum and the New York curriculum im sure is comparable to the difference between the French and German curriculums.

You said that FRance bordered italy, but everyone else was excused for their poor ability to find italy (something you are probably taught in school, no?). Well, Texas, New mexico, arizona, california, since they border mexico probably have a much better percentage of finding it, then lest say, Maine or North Dakota (who could probably find canada better), as Mexico plays a large part in the border states affairs and so is probably taught a lot about in schools (i know i was taught a lot about mexican and hispanic culture, but didnt learn that Canada was both french speaking and english speaking till junior high). Mexico effects Indiana probably MUCH less than Italy effects Great Brittain.

Remeber, the United States is a very big and diverse country, nearly as much so as all of Europe

as for canada and the rest of the world, i thin its pretty clear they are better educated in GEOGRAPHY than the united states

	14-07-2003 01:56									#134
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20/20.
I guess Bierce was wrong when he said "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Doesn't seem to have worked.
I'll bet all those Americans missed that "Taliban based in Afghanistan" question because they thought it was Iraq. I blame our political system more than our educational system there.

	14-07-2003 02:45									#135
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I don't know about the US educational system but way back then I had to pinpoint every US state on a blind map...

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wow, im glad we dont have to learn the provinces of each european country.... obviously many americans dont even learn the european countries. i personhally in 5th grade had to memorize every european country and their capitals, and then i had to do it again in 9th grade, and ontop of that i had to learn some of the famous natrual land marks and stuff

	14-07-2003 03:34									#137
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20/20 the only one I wasn't sure of was the Islam/Christianity thing.... I knew it was Christianity 10 years ago, but I wasn't sure about now

	14-07-2003 03:42									#138
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Sounds to me, it is the governments way of doing what they want.

How do you run a democratic country, one where all the people think they are 100% free to do and say what they want? You make them ignorant! So in effect, the government is not democratic, and the general population are too ignorant/stupid to understand what *exactly* is going on with the world.

But, of course America does have it's rare geniuses, but the govt will make good use of them.

I do remember reading that most of America's highest ranked scientists (working on something or rather) are actually foriegn.

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quote: I do remember reading that most of America's highest ranked scientists (working on something or rather) are actually foriegn.

that is because many scientists around the world would gladly come to america to study/work... and the world is a much larger pool of people in which to get geniuses from than america. Its known as the american "brain drain". Poor India has lost some of their finest minds, first to Britain, and now to America

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quote: Originally posted by Sn00py Anyway, those stats are scary. But lets face it, America is the most diverse country in the world, it's bound to have loads of uneducated people. The next down the line would be Great Britain, and so it is.

Canada is very diverse, but our scores differed noticeably from the U.K. and U.S.A. What's the deal, then?

	14-07-2003 05:17									#141
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I don't know much about Canada, but there is something about it which seperates it from America, not the obvious things, but something in essence.

I actually see England being closer to U.S.A than Canada is (not in terms of geographical location of course )

	14-07-2003 05:23									#142
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If somebody doesn't get 20 out of 20 on that test then they should feel like a retard. It was just so easy.

	14-07-2003 07:57									#143
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zero wrong. wasn't that hard.

	14-07-2003 17:11									#144
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin If somebody doesn't get 20 out of 20 on that test then they should feel like a retard. It was just so easy.

Well going by that logic, the World's most powerful nation's 18-34 yo's are mostly retards...

	14-07-2003 17:18									#145
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I convinced my father to take the test.

He knew the answer to 2 questions, and guessed correctly another 3. Ah well.

	14-07-2003 17:24									#146
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5/20?

	14-07-2003 17:45									#147
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Yep.

Some answers were truly horrifying. He thought that the US is in Canada, didnt know the difference between the US and America, thought that Nigeria is Argentina, that Italy is Spain and that the Kashmir conflict is between Israel and Egypt.

	14-07-2003 17:51									#148
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ahem....this might be a bit insensitive, Eli, but is there something wrong with your dad?

	14-07-2003 17:54									#149
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I got 20/20 of course.

I know lots of people who would probably get rather lousy results. They're not dumb, they just don't care too much about what goes on in the world.

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quote: Originally posted by Azazel ahem....this might be a bit insensitive, Eli, but is there something wrong with your dad?

He doesnt know a thing beyond what he needs to know.

Just like the average American.