Cordelia ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
75% of adults believe the famed Benjamin Franklin saying “God helps those who help themselves” is one of the Ten Commandments.
Seriously?? That's insane. Even if you can't name ten commandments, people should at least have a sense of the tone of them, for chrissakes. Or they should be able to figure out that "commandment" is related to "command," and know what that means.
Fucking people.
Of course, I'm really curious as to how that study was conducted, how the questions were phrased, etc.
Oh, sure. But no matter what, that shit is bananas.
The woman tailgating me on the way in was putting on mascara at 40 mph while tailgating me.
I don't need a survey to tell me people are largely stupid. I just have to drive to work.
Dude! It's the Sermon on the Mount! I've only been to church services once in my life, and even I know it was Jesus.
I feel like grabbing ignorant people by the face and shouting "READ!"
that shit is bananas
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Dagnabit, Jesse.
Aimee, I'm so sorry about your grandmother.
Of course, I'm really curious as to how that study was conducted, how the questions were phrased, etc.
I jumped to an opinion in the LA Times that was linked from Wonkette -- the opinion was written by the author of the book ("Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't") that Wonkette refers to. The author, Stephen Prothero, is chairman of the religion department at Boston University -- some of the questions come from a religious literacy quiz he gave to undergraduates that he taught.
Other statistics come from studies that he calls "more scientific," though in the LA Times piece, he doesn't get into the details of those studies.
There was a survey a while back in which people were asked if a certain quote (taken from the Bill of Rights) was from the Bill of Rights or the Communist Manifesto, and the majority of Americans picked Communist Manifesto.
Maybe we do get the government we deserve....
I just don't get people who lack intellectual curiosity. How can you not want to know things about things?!