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Among other problems I can easily see with this poll, a high school senior may have been more apt to remember these things because he/she recently learned about them, while a college grad might not have studied any of this since high school, making it more likely that he/she cannot recall it on the spot.

Your kidding. Did you read the questions? Anyone who can read and understand a Newspaper would know the answers to those questions. My mother, who recently passed away, when 87 could still name all the presidents of the US, the capitals of all the states (which she taught my children before they went to school), and could still tell you where most of the countries in the world were located, and most of their capitals. (She had some problems with some of the "new" countries.)

She was just a plain old High School graduate, and hadn't "studied" these things for a few years. The reason college graduates cannot answer the questions is because they never knew the answers.

Hank

Hank...

I am tutoring a young man in the 9th grade. What he does not know is indeed astounding and sad. Most appalling is the fact that he cannot write. He has to print everything and that is acceptable. Public school of course. Yes, he is good at computers, but he cannot write. I had to buy a large wall map, to teach him where the rest of the world is and how they live. Sad....