Simply Fucking Sad...Part 2

[Justtristo]

Another item to be filed in the 'Americans are dumb as a box of rocks' category.

Pew Research gave the linked 13 question basic science quiz to 1,006 Americans. You can take the test. I answered all 13 correctly. I am not bragging here. The quiz is very basic. The sad thing is, based on the immediate comparison results, only 7% of respondents answered all 13 correctly.

There's a link for the study conclusions which I'm off to take a look at.

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/

Really how bad is the US school system may I ask? Are we talking about say the quality of the state of Tasmania's in Australia or even worse than that?

To give an example of the quality of the Tasmanian education system. Half of all Tasmanians aged 15 to 74 are functionally illiterate and even more so functionally innumerate. Both meaning they don't have the skills needed to get by in the modern world, like filling out forms, or reading the instructions on their prescription.

Anyway I scored 13/13 which should be expected for somebody (like myself) who has done Year 10 (Grade 10) Science.