Lunch Scholars Video Reveals Students Can't Answer Basic Trivia - Polidicks

Shit my high school had the most stabbings in our county, but even most of the students there could answer these questions. :v:

Well I be damned, I never knew Osama bin Laden was our vice president.

Hey I'm kinda curious, how many americans here know how many presidents there have been?

[QUOTE=Habsburg;34536400]Hey I'm kinda curious, how many americans here know how many presidents there have been?[/QUOTE] First thing that came to mind was 43, but I guess he's the 44th man to hold the office. Not sure how that works.

[QUOTE=Habsburg;34536400]Hey I'm kinda curious, how many americans here know how many presidents there have been?[/QUOTE] Around 50. We don't need to know all of them because a lot of them didn't do anything important at all.

[QUOTE=Regulas021;34536419]First thing that came to mind was 43, but I guess he's the 44th man to hold the office. Not sure how that works.[/QUOTE] 43rd, Grover Cleveland held the position twice but non-consecutively. So they count him twice in the numbing of presidents. (I watch a lot of QI)

I was instantly reminded of this [img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkfypiXphv1qzma4ho1_500.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;34536434]Around 50. We don't need to know all of them because a lot of them didn't do anything important at all.[/QUOTE] I mean the official ones

How is it that I know more about America than these people who LIVE there?

[QUOTE=IForgotPassword;34536717]How is it that I know more about America than these people who LIVE there?[/QUOTE] Because you didn't read this thread or think your statement through and didn't realize that you aren't in the cherry-picked lowest IQ bracket that the video obviously sought out and edited to fit.

"If we're going to grow at the rate that we hope to grow at to address the many issues that exist in our society, we need to have a powerful educational system that is producing a highly proficient workforce," Peterson told HuffPost in October. No matter how good the educational system in your country is, you can't turn trash into anything better than trash. If people don't care about something, they're not going to bother to remember it. Also, 300+ million people, of course the overall average is going to be lower in most areas, especially something like reading where many kids barely speak english because they just came from Latin/South America or something similar.

I've always wanted to be on one of these so I could crush every question. Just to prove that not everyone is this dumb.

[QUOTE=Zombii;34536846]I've always wanted to be on one of these so I could crush every question. Just to prove that not everyone is this dumb.[/QUOTE] And then you would be shocked (or maybe not) when you find that you aren't even in the video because you answered them correctly.

if there's one thing that really ingratiates you to your peers it's producing a video wherein you make them look like tremendous idiots this kid's gonna be real popular

[QUOTE=IForgotPassword;34536717]How is it that I know more about America than these people who LIVE there?[/QUOTE] How is it that I know more about Australia than dumb people that LIVE there? It's because they are DUMB people.

It's actually not even funny how many of them didn't know what countries they bordered.

[QUOTE=TamTamJam;34537007]It's actually not even funny how many of them didn't know what countries they bordered.[/QUOTE] It's probably even funnier how many did and were edited out. You have to be really thick to not know at least one of the bordering countries. It has absolutely nothing to do with the educational system, they teach basic geography.

[QUOTE=ice445;34537024]It's probably even funnier how many did and were edited out. You have to be really thick to not know at least one of the bordering countries. It has absolutely nothing to do with the educational system, they teach basic geography.[/QUOTE] The fact that there's any is still surprising.

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;34536924]How is it that I know more about Australia than dumb people that LIVE there? It's because they are DUMB people.[/QUOTE] His point isn't "hurr all americans are dumb idiots" His point is that he doesn't even live in the same fucking country as these fools and he knows more about it than them. There's no excuse to live in America and not know how many goddamn countries border it, or a few of the other questions presented. Good god I wish bad reading wasn't gone. Everyone just seems to jump on a "these kids are cherry picked blablabla" or even "it's totally staged" party. Yes, these people actually exist. News flash, there are actually people this dumb, and there's not a single excuse to be this uneducated. It's like living in Australia and not knowing that your country is an island. Or living in the United Kingdom and thinking France is to the north and Scotland is somewhere to the east.

At least the article calls for education reform, rather than the usual "hurr durr kids sure are dumb these days, huh? Isn't our generation just so much better?" or "It must be that new president's fault, even though these kids should have learned these facts years and years ago" that I usually see when things like this make the news.

[QUOTE=A big fat ass;34533193]Kids are pretty dumb these days.[/QUOTE] actually, on average, education today is the best it's ever been in history the fact that you're making this judgement based on anecdotal evidence and a clearly biased youtube "documentary" shows that you might not have benefited much from this trend the fact that these kids don't know the answers to these questions is disconcerting, but it's because they just don't give a fuck, and kids have just not given a fuck for large spans of history

[QUOTE=Sector 7;34537154]actually, on average, education today is the best it's ever been in history the fact that you're making this judgement based on anecdotal evidence and a clearly biased youtube "documentary" shows that you might not have benefited much from this trend[/QUOTE] Nope nope, vast majority of kids used to not be able to even read 100-150 years ago but education has been on a downward trend, yep yep.

Wow, I'm sheltered and homeschooled, but I knew all of these. I knew most of them when I was younger than 10.

[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;34535308']And I would have called it the US War of Independence, but I think that's because that's what it's called in the UK.[/QUOTE] Funny how that term is more neutral, while our "American Revolutionary War" is more grandiose.

i'm trying to adjust these questions to suit Australia: imagine if someone said that someone like assange was PM, oh god

Canada is a state. Also we gained our Independence as a country during the Korean war.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;34537601]Canada is a state. Also we gained our Independence as a country during the Korean war.[/QUOTE] The Tet Offensive was our push into southern Brazil, and on that day we gained our 63rd state, Cambodia.

I'm a junior in HS and even the dumbest motherfuckers I know can answer these.

How the hell does someone not know the countries that border the USA?

[QUOTE=Matrix374;34538335]How the hell does someone not know the countries that border the USA?[/QUOTE] because they have shitty parents and have been conditioned by their peers to actively shun knowledge mostly an inner-city problem, conduct the same interview in a good school district and you'll find vastly different results