One in 4 Americans Cannot Identify Who We Declared Independence From

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BigPapaVol said:
Bullcrap.
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+1, there is something ****ed with the sampling.

You know, amongst my many problems with the media is their quickness to tell us how stupid Americans are. There are certainly stupid Americans. I would even venture to say that 3 out of 4 Americans are supremely stupid. But they aren't quite that stupid.
 
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i wonder who the other 3/4 of the people survey thought? they probably thought we escaped from white Christians from the south.
 
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joevol320 said:
i wonder who the other 3/4 of the people survey thought? they probably thought we escaped from white Christians from the south.
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I think you need to reread the link. 1 in 4 didn't know the answer, so 3 out of 4 DID know it was Great Britain/England.
 
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emainvol said:
+1, there is something ****ed with the sampling.

You know, amongst my many problems with the media is their quickness to tell us how stupid Americans are. There are certainly stupid Americans. I would even venture to say that 3 out of 4 Americans are supremely stupid. But they aren't quite that stupid.
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somehow i'm sure this will be used to explain why americans don't like soccer.
 
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vols4sure said:
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If they don't know that we obtained our independence from the British, it is a guarantee that they don't know why we fought for our independence.

This country is in sad shape.
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Are we using the Democratic Party's definition of "American"? You know, anyone that currently resides in America? If so, then I believe that stat.

My great state of Arizona would have corrected for this sampling error by first asking everyone to prove that they were an American citizen.
 
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Vol423 said:
Are we using the Democratic Party's definition of "American"? You know, anyone that currently resides in America? If so, then I believe that stat.

My great state of Arizona would have corrected for this sampling error by first asking everyone to prove that they were an American citizen.
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Are you saying that they also conducted the poll in Spanish?
 
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Very small sample size in the poll but I just figured this would be one of those things that everybody knew (like George Washington being the first president)
 
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vols4sure said:
Very small sample size in the poll but I just figured this would be one of those things that everybody knew (like George Washington being the first president)
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Wait, what? Wasn't it Franklin? He's on the 100 dollar bill, you know.
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I think the true meaning of this poll is that 1 in 4 Americans is a treasonous liberal who moonlights as a secret Muslim. That's at least what gs and justin told me.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
Bullcrap.
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I feel the same way about this as I do about polls saying 60 percent of Americans believe a 9/11 conspiracy theory and that 10 percent of the population is gay. I'm also not buying that 2/3 of the country reject evolution, to be honest.
 
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six percent who thought the U.S. fought a revolution against another country. Among the countries mentioned were France, China, Japan, Mexico, and Spain, according to the poll.
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Yeah, not buying this.
 
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