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I think Education in the US is fucked.
But I also think a statistic like this is total garbage without citation or SOMETHING to back it up. There are so many terrible statistics based in bad data that get passed ad infinitum without someone bothering to check their accuracy.
Did they poll 10 people, and find that two of them couldn't locate the US? Surely you COULD extrapolate this to the US population as a whole, but it'd be disingenuous and a bit unethical.
EVEN if I suspend disbelief and say maybe they polled 5000 people, the sample size STILL isn't representative. What is the social and economic status of the respondents? Were they randomly selected or taken from a selected sample? How was the map presented? Who administered the test? Did the respondents understand the question?
Statistics are terribly abused.
I've taught 90 students in the last 1.5 years, and I know for a fact that all of them were able to locate the US on a map. Would it be fair to extrapolate that and say that 100% of US citizens can find the US on a world map?
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