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Here is a sample of factlets from surveys and studies conducted in the
past twenty years. Seventy percent of Americans believe in the existence
of angels. Fifty percent believe that the earth has been visited by
UFOs; in another poll, seventy percent believed that the US government
is covering up the presence of space aliens on earth. Forty percent did
not know whom the US fought in World War II. Forty percent could not
locate Japan on a world map. Fifteen percent could not locate the United
States on a world map. Sixty percent of Americans have not read a book
since leaving school. Only six percent now read even one book a year.
According to a very familiar statistic that nonetheless cannot be
repeated too often, the average American's day includes six minutes
playing sports, five minutes reading books, one minute making music,
thirty seconds attending a play or concert, twenty-five seconds making
or viewing art, and four hours watching television.
Among high-school seniors surveyed in the late 1990s, fifty percent had
not heard of the Cold War. Sixty percent could not say how the United
States came into existence. Fifty percent did not know in which century
the Civil War occurred. Sixty percent could name each of the Three
Stooges but not the three branches of the US government. Sixty percent
could not comprehend an editorial in a national or local newspaper.
full: http://georgescialabba.net/mtgs/2012/05/decline-and-fall.html
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