"Why the 'Ignorance Index' matters"

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Why the 'Ignorance Index' matters

By Global Public Square staff, CNN

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/11/11/why-the-ignorance-index-matters/

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Americans voted on Tuesday for big change. But did they understand the facts that they wanted to change? Not according to a groundbreaking new survey.

You see, Americans think the unemployment rate is much higher than it is, that there are many more immigrants and pregnant teens than there actually are, and that the population is much older than it actually is.

Now maybe this gap between perception and reality is because of American ignorance or hyper-partisanship. Except, we’re not alone.

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America’s Founding Father James Madison, perhaps, put it best: “Popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps, both.”




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[dorkzilla]

1. Wow, thanks for posting

somehow I am not comforted by the fact that Italy beat us out for the most ignorant nation....

[Tsiyu]

2. K & R

All we need is a Declaration of Ignorance

to make it official.


Clog on...