The three questions asked respondents 1. Which party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives? 2. The name of the current U.S. Secretary of State 3. The name of the current president of Russia
It wasn't an IQ test; they are simple questions that everyone should know the answer to. Your argument is that these people know about current events but don't understand them while people that don't know about said events have a better understanding of them? There's no wonder you have no respect for people in the know. On 8/2/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > Judged by their answers to three news knowledge questions2, the most > > informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's > > radio show, the O'Reilly Factor, > > Dude. "Knowledge" of an event is greatly different than an informed > understanding of it. I can tell a 5 year old about Katrina, that > doesn't mean he has a sophisticated understanding of it. > > Further, a college degree from anything other than a top 10 school is > basically meaningless. And even from a top 10 it's not worth THAT > much. Anybody that's hired people knows that. > > In short, I know of no person who's understanding of a > political/social/military event I respect that is either a Limbaugh > listener or an O'reilly viewer. And there's a good reason for that: > they suck. > > But I'm open to suggestions. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
