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Kids are getting dumber! As Luke Skywalker becomes first man to step on the moon

#1 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 03:12 PM

The Queen invents the telephone??

I know that they are only 9-10 years old but I'm fairly sure I knew who Neil Armstrong was at that age...

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 03:31 PM

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 03:57 PM

Maybe it's not just kids...

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 04:04 PM

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 06:56 PM

Well even BBC's unintuitive site yielded a find.

Here's the article Tiste was talking about.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ion/8565258.stm

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 12:27 AM

my bad chaps...

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 12:31 AM

Man the movie Idiocracy is starting to look less like a comedy and more like a prophecy
Those kids need to get studying and soon, the worst part of that survey to me was the fact that some 60% of the students thought SIR Isaac Newton discovered fire I mean the sir part of his title should be a dead give away as to the fact that he was about a couple thousand years to late to have discovered fire even if you hadn't heard of him

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 07:59 AM

God save me, the time for patience is past. Break out the knuckledusters!

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 10:01 AM

Dude they're 9 year old kids!

I'm not really surprised, at age 9 I wasn't really well informed, either.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 12:23 PM

I'm sorry to say it kids, but that wasn't a moon...

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 12:52 PM

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Eight out of 10 boys correctly identified Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, compared with 69% of girls.

What's this supposed to tell me? This basically says that eight out of ten boys knew this, and about seven out of ten girls. So? What are they trying to say? I'd call this a good quota, nothing bad or shocking there, I mean, they're nine ot ten years old. I'm just puzzled about this conclusion. They should get their numbers straight.

Otherwise.. Well, they're children. I agree that some of their 'knowledge' is puzzling, but when I was eight I thought TV-serials were real. Also, I chuckled about "nearly 70% of nine and 10-year-olds would like to be famous for winning a Nobel Prize in science". Really, the 'dumb'-being part seems to start at the age of about 14, as far as I'm concerned.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 01:40 PM

And of course that prooves how even the the guys who did the test are ignorants because it was Meucci who invented the telephone not Bell.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 03:35 PM

Kids are dumb. I was marking some tests for my girlfriend the other night, and not just one, but three of them apparently thought that 9 months was half a year. And they were 13/14. I despair.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 07:31 PM

Maybe it's not that kids are getting dumber, merely that you're getting smarter as you get older. Now think how clever you'll be when you reach my age...

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