To: yankeedame
Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean. I don't believe that, since a person who can read could easily locate the Pacific Ocean on a map, regardless of his knowledge of geography. There is no way that 30% of the country is illiterate...
To: The Green Goblin
I know I've become jaundiced and irregular over the years, but the way this news item is written seems deliberately vague and manipulable.
Only 85% of Americans can locate the Pacific Ocean? Well, maybe the other 15% were shown a scavenger hunt map of Grampa Dickman's buried and strangely smelly backyard treasures.
"Can you locate the Pacific Ocean on this Map?" "No, it's a map of the surface of Jupiter's moon Titan." "So that's a no."
To: The Green Goblin
I don't believe that, since a person who can read could easily locate the Pacific Ocean on a map, regardless of his knowledge of geography. There is no way that 30% of the country is illiterate...
And you obviously did not try the sample questions. The Pacific Ocean was marked by a number not the label "Pacific Ocean".
130 posted on
04/30/2003 9:54:05 AM PDT by
NathanR
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