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How did you do on the test? I bet you didn't even open up the link but would be glad to hear you say that you got 20 out of 20 questions right. I think that we have very few people who can do that and they won't want to tell us how they did. I hope you aren't one of them.
How many knowledge questions one knows has nothing to do with intelligence.
I got 2 wrong. I even surprised myself by remembering "John Jay" for the Federalist Paper question.
Lord knows how or why I remember that though but it popped right up.
Really surprising that so many don't know that Biden is the VP and that we have a capitalist economic system.
I just checked the link and sure enough it works. You must have tried before I got it corrected.
It is certainly sad that so many didn't know some of those answers. I find many here who would miss the one about what the Cold War was about since so many of our people think that Communism has been gone for so long. My problem with all of that is that I think people are being taught that in our schools.
Try the link again.
Must be Google Chrome, its probably why it showed me all 40 questions.
"For more than two centuries, Americans have gotten away with not knowing much about the world around them. But times have changed—and they’ve changed in ways that make civic ignorance a big problem going forward. While isolationism is fine in an isolated society, we can no longer afford to mind our own business."
"If you look at the link be sure to take the test and see how you do on it. I did it and got all 20 questions they have here right. Actually it was all too simple but in looking at how people scored on it one has a tendency to get a bit sick at the stupidity that does actually run rampant in the US."
I say that the biggest problem is what our schools are teaching these days. Or is it not teaching?
The problem with education is that most teachers have degrees in education rather than the subject that they teach. They know how to teach but their knowledge of the subject goes no deeper than the textbook. I was in 6th grade when I realized that I knew more about history than my teacher ever would, it was all downhill from there.
I finished High school and College in the Army where my instructors were chosen for their subject knowledge.
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