"US officials flunk test of Amerian history, economics, civics screams an AFP headline that I picked up while perusing Yahoo. Obviously unsurprising given the recently popular Sarah Palin show, but who knew the rot went so deep?
Average score of the 164 respondents who claimed to have held an elected public office at least once in their life: 44%. Ouch.
Average score of the other 2344 private citizens: 49%. Double Ouch. One order of Education Reform, and make it speedy, garçon.
Quoth the chairman of the group that gave the test:
"It is disturbing enough that the general public failed ISI's civic literacy test, but when you consider the even more dismal scores of elected officials, you have to be concerned," said Josiah Bunting, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board at ISI.
Seriously. Politicians would be failing even on a curve. And who made this test up? What is wrong with this picture? Why am I not surprised?
Answers (and correct ones, I promise) after the jump.
Read More