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Title: Comedy Images
Post by: Entsuropi on November 21, 2002, 07:06:10 PM

this is for any funny pictures you come across online. i'll open with something spriggan told me to put up here after i showed him it  : a map of the world, according to america. (http://www.attrition.org/gallery/other/world_according_to_america2.gif)

Title: Re: Comedy Images
Post by: House of Mustard on November 22, 2002, 04:20:01 PM

Lol.  Speaking of maps, I heard on NPR the other day that 10% of American high school students can't find the US on a map.  Not surprisingly, only 13% could find Iraq and even fewer could find Afghanistan.

Title: Re: Comedy Images
Post by: Tage on November 22, 2002, 04:57:58 PM

Bwahaha, I shared that pic with all my coworkers. It's so true.

And I sincerely hope that statistic isn't entirely accurate. I mean, really, could american high schoolers get any dumber?

Title: Re: Comedy Images
Post by: Entsuropi on November 23, 2002, 06:00:32 AM

im always slightly suspicious of statistics like that - how do they genereate that number? maybe they just go to a dodgy catholic school in the bible belt and check there.

Title: Re: Comedy Images
Post by: Lord_of_Me on November 24, 2002, 11:37:41 AM

i read a brilliant book a while ago - "how to lie with statistics". They probably asked lots of small groups and then worked out the percentage for the lowest one, or the highest one depending how stupid these students actually are.