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not for 1 sec...a 15 yr old hacked into a FBI-Scotland yard phone call...Jon Johansen as a teen let me make back up copies of my DVD's...
I interview students for an advanced 6 yr BS/MD program and the candidates are amazing...the premed students that I interview for medical school admission are mind blowing... Consider this...if you take schools that have 20% or less of their students in free lunch programs (a surrogate marker for poverty)...and only compare those schools scores with the rest of the world...we rank #2...consider even further that many other countries "track" their students via testing into academic and vocational schools...as MANDATORY...the parent does't get much say in the matter... We are just fine... The bigger problem is "gotcha" media sensations that discourage all except the most pathologic narcacist from ever going into politics...
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Thanks Captain Obvious. Please do not repost here. And the general argument of this debate is that YES, there are dumb people EVERYWHERE, but the ratio is greater in the USA. Please, do not say a country like Germany has a higher ratio of idiot/total population, you will look even more like a fool. |
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Dumb kids are everywhere, not just United States. I'm not an American citizen, but there is no way that one stupid video is the way to judge America's future. Not knowing a bit of history or where the hell is capital of Washington has nothing to do with a student showing exclusive talent in art designs for example. Really, it doesn't friggin' matter. Yes, it would be better if they know, but not everyone has to know everything. As long as they dedicate and show off their full talent in what they have confidence in, future looks good. I ask one of the most smartest CS tech student in my university and he couldn't tell the difference between India and Indonesia. He thought they were samething. I laughed at the time, but not so funny when the codes he wrote for a program that night received 12 job offers in the next 2 weeks from the most famous corporations. There are many more outstanding students out there that will put these kids into their places.
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02-04-2012, 05:12 PM | #34 | |
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no, seriously, go to Japan and discover the hikkimoris, the latex dolls, the only women bus go to India and see what the word poor really means go to UK and see a future arquitech, lawyer or engineer on brand new drugs every weekend mixed with alcohol etc etc
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I guarantee a ton of people here would have missed some of those too and a ton of productive and unproductive adults don't know the answers any better.
Is it stupid? Yes...does it mean America is going to crap? Maybe, but not necessarily. These kinds of questions should be common knowledge, but knowing the answers to these questions ultimately doesn't make a smart person stupid or a stupid person smart. I'm more concerned with the cycle of families living on the government, rising social welfare programs, and people just being straight up lazy. If a person can be a productive member of society, (even if it's just cleaning shit up) I don't really care if they know who is the current vice president or which war America won its independence. We all should understand that the mere knowledge of facts and historical events aren't a true measure of intelligence. Just look at the show "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader." Most of that crap adults don't know because it's not needed in every day life and they haven't looked at it for 20 years. Should we know the basics? Yes, but it's not really necessary to know how to diagram sentences, recall the periodic table from memory, or label the different components of a flower. |
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Biggest misconception ever. I'm not sure if you live in India, but with over 1b people, there are idiots in that group too. China, Japan, you name it... Americans think foreigners are smart because the only ones that make here are the intelligent ones (in many cases, especially China and India). I will agree that the smartest Asians are on a higher level in math and science, but there are a ton of American kids with huge ambition and equally impressive intelligence. Asians are typically less lazy and more disciplined because of their culture. It's not that they are smarter; they are just forced down a certain path by social and parental pressures. |
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Japan was in the medieval era not much time ago*
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are they in Denver? if so, maybe the air is a bit too thin?
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At 2:40 it looks like his fingers are freakishly long...
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What would have been interesting would have been to see how many of the internet wizards here could have answered the questions without using Google??? |
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02-05-2012, 12:38 PM | #43 |
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Ask the questions on a piece of paper, and the results will change drastically. The "on-the-spot" questions with a camera can be challenging for Ph.D's.
Still doesn't change there are many complete idiots in this world, but this is meant for comedic purposes(e.g Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?). Also, Asian kid didn't know the answer, so he deflected the question rather than answer it so his inherent rep wouldn't be damaged lol.
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