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Originally Posted by Dyze
irat, this information is in no way worthless and does not need to be compared to any other country. The stats are horrible as they are without reference to other countries. The US claim to be one of the most developed countries and therefore 20 % should not think that the sun orbits the earth. Maybe in Indonesia 60 % believe so and 24 % in Japan but that does not matter. It is bad as it is.
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But if America has the fewest % of people who believe the sun orbits the earth, then America IS the best in that facet. I believe that irate was pointing out (correctly) that in an article trying to show that America isn't tops in a bunch of topics, but doesn't show the comparison.
I don't think that the original article wasn't for the purpose of problem solving, but was for the purpose of showing how America sucks. The article starts with the assumption that the EU is better. It uses alot of numbers to try to prove this, but these numbers are in a vacuum. There is no comparison to determine if indeed the EU is better in those things.
There are many things that can be improved in America. And some of these things (especially the public school systems) are already being done better in the EU. But that wasn't the purpose, the purpose was to show how they are right and America is wrong. And they failed to do that.