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| US adults are dumber than the average human |
| 2013-10-20 |
| h/t IMAO It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers. Now, there's a new twist: Adults don't either. In math, reading and problem-solving using technology -- all skills considered critical for global competitiveness and economic strength -- American adults scored below the international average on a global test, according to results released Tuesday. Adults in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland and multiple other countries scored significantly higher than the United States in all three areas on the test. Beyond basic reading and math, respondents were tested on activities such as calculating mileage reimbursement due to a salesman, sorting email and comparing food expiration dates on grocery store tags. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.". |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 But maybe not smarter than THIS bear, badanov: http://zasmejsa.com/videa/zobrazit/62981/v-tom-rusku-je-mozne-asi-naozaj-vsetko/ |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-20 14:50 |
| #7 Immigration from 3rd world hell holes is also a factor. Fifty percent drop out rate |
| Posted by: regular joe 2013-10-20 12:48 |
| #6 One thing that affects international comparisons is that America is divided into two groups: The Race that Dare Not be Named; and everybody else. One group has large numbers of uninformed voters, poor reading and math skills, high rates of violence, and high rates of drug use. the other group is the opposite. The problem is that when the two groups are averaged together, the resulting score is lower by several points. One demographic fact: Americans living in the inner city have the same life expectancy as a person from Bangladesh. However, after age 5 (to factor out child mortality), the chances of dying is greater for the American in the inner city. Since dozens of Bengalis are eaten by tigers every year, It gives you an idea of just how dysfunctional the inner city is. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2013-10-20 12:28 |
| #5 US adults are dumber than the average human At least we're smarter than the average bear! |
| Posted by: badanov 2013-10-20 12:23 |
| #4 I was looking at our county-wide educational Advanced Placement (AP) test results. The results supported some of the things mentioned in this posted article. Kids from areas that have higher levels of poverty, don't have intact families, have lower levels of education, tend to have more violent crime and gang activity, and have higher percentages of minorities tend to score lower on AP tests. But then we are probably a racist community (sarc on). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-20 11:49 |
| #3 It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers. It's also been known that international tests usually just involve the better slice of the student bodies vs American 'test them all'. Kids are sorted out in middle school periods for separate tracks for vocational and higher education. Guess who's result get counted? There's dumb and then there's lazy. Don't confuse the two. Wonder who's citizen (Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland) are better at running a 'black' off the books economy? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-10-20 08:38 |
| #2 comparing food expiration dates on grocery store tags. When 48,000,000 are on the EBT, and expiration dates essentially become irrelevant, this portion of the test is equally as irrelevant. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-20 07:58 |
| #1 When a person spends 6 hrs/day in an alpha state staring at projections of stupid people on a 'tube' some accommodation conditioning occurs. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-10-20 07:35 |