Has to be fake.

casual disregard: Has to be fake.

Where the hell did you attend high school? Seems pretty normal to me.

I nailed all those answers. BOO-YAH!

JerseyTim: I nailed all those answers. BOO-YAH!

Congratulations, you're smarter than a high school sophomore.

Woo selective editing!

Seriously, let me interview 50 high school students. I can give you two videos: one showing how smart they are by showing lots of right answers, and one showing how stupid they are by showing all the wrong answers.

GAT_00: Woo selective editing!

Seriously, let me interview 50 high school students. I can give you two videos: one showing how smart they are by showing lots of right answers, and one showing how stupid they are by showing all the wrong answers.

Not going to even go on the quality of the answers? "What war gave America her independence?" Really? Really?

You don't have to edit it. We dumb.

/Even though I'm sure they edited out correct answers the ones they got wrong were pretty indicative of their overall intelligence.

GAT_00: Woo selective editing!

Seriously, let me interview 50 high school students. I can give you two videos: one showing how smart they are by showing lots of right answers, and one showing how stupid they are by showing all the wrong answers.


There should not be any high school students who can't answer all of those questions correctly. The fact that even one student can't answer those questions is a sign that we are doing something wrong.

I was really hoping to hear one kid drop a 'Fartbongo' because they waste their days on Fark and think that's his name.

NewportBarGuy: Even though I'm sure they edited out correct answers the ones they got wrong were pretty indicative of their overall intelligence.

FloydA: There should not be any high school students who can't answer all of those questions correctly. The fact that even one student can't answer those questions is a sign that we are doing something wrong.

Did your generation vote George Bush for President? Then shut up.

GAT_00: Did your generation vote George Bush for President? Then shut up.

Uhhhh... No, actually. That was the old, scared people. But, nice try.

NewportBarGuy: GAT_00: Did your generation vote George Bush for President? Then shut up.

Uhhhh... No, actually. That was the old, scared people. But, nice try.

The only Demo Bush won in 2000 was the 30-49 group. In 2004, he won every demo above 30.
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GAT_00: Seriously, let me interview 50 high school students. I can give you two videos: one showing how smart they are by showing lots of right answers, and one showing how stupid they are by showing all the wrong answers.

Yes, but the video depicting the smarter students will be significantly shorter. I work with college students every single day of the week and I regularly encounter college Juniors who are incapable of looking at a picture of three parts and then simply laying the three parts out in the same order as the picture. There is no trickery just a basic instruction to place the parts in the correct order before beginning the experiment. I'm not talking about mistakes, I'm talking about students who literally cannot look a picture of three things and arrange three things to look like the picture. I also see college Juniors who are completely incapable of following very basic written instructions. In December 2011 I attended a meeting where one of Computer Science department instructors stated the following in a discussion about a new course which was offered during the fall semester. Again keep in mind these are college Junior's.

'We grossly over estimated the capabilities of the core students when writing our laboratory procedures. Initially we included a sheet with written commands where the student was asked to retype a specific command at the command prompt. We quickly realized they could not retype a single short sentence without errors so we switched to a method where they could copy and paste the command to the command prompt. Then we realized that they also couldn't copy and paste properly. Instead, they would copy a portion of the command and paste it at the prompt. Then would sit confused for 10 minutes or more before asking for help'

In a weird twist of fate I ended up working with one of my old college professors. He was my favorite professor when I attended college in the 1980's. I have taken a number of courses in recent years and they seemed amazingly easy compared to the classes I took in the 1980's. I asked him, are the courses easier or am I able to learn faster than I used to. He smiled and said, the course material is substantially easier than when I taught you. In the 1990's we discovered virtually none of our students could pass the courses so we had to dumb them down. It's been a down hill slide since. The students have less and less capability to learn as time goes by.

GAT_00: NewportBarGuy: GAT_00: Did your generation vote George Bush for President? Then shut up.

Uhhhh... No, actually. That was the old, scared people. But, nice try.

The only Demo Bush won in 2000 was the 30-49 group. In 2004, he won every demo above 30.
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Oh, and as you can see, Bush tied with the then 18-24 group. How old were you in 2000?

NFA: The students have less and less capability to learn as time goes by.

Bullshiat.

GAT_00:
Did your generation vote George Bush for President? Then shut up.


No, actually. My generation was more or less evenly split, but unfortunately the generation ahead of mine voted for Bush, and they outnumber us rather significantly. But that's irrelevant to my point.

My point is, it should be impossible for you to produce a video showing wrong answers because no high school student should be unable to answer those questions.

The failure here is not that the kids are dumb- they aren't any less intelligent than any other age cohort. It's the school system that is failing them, and that's a systemic problem. The US has under-valued education so much, and has been actively anti-intellectual for so long, that students don't think acquiring knowledge is actually important. And their attitude is reinforced every time the state cuts funding to education (which has happened a lot lately in Washington state, where this video was made).

FloydA: My point is, it should be impossible for you to produce a video showing wrong answers because no high school student should be unable to answer those questions.

And I'm saying that no matter what generation I would check, there would be people at the same age unable to answer these questions. Your generation was just as dumb as mine, though these people are more than 10 years younger so it's probably a generation below mine now, but I categorically call bullshiat on the idea that this generation is dumber than yours. Just like every generation before it, the old people have decided the young people are stupid and have completely forgotten how dumb they were.

GAT_00: I categorically call bullshiat on the idea that this generation is dumber than yours.


I made no such argument.

FloydA: GAT_00: I categorically call bullshiat on the idea that this generation is dumber than yours.


I made no such argument.

The argument that it shouldn't be possible to show wrong answers suggests that in the past, there wouldn't have been wrong answers.

FloydA: GAT_00: I categorically call bullshiat on the idea that this generation is dumber than yours.


I made no such argument.

Neither did I. In fact, I think I said "We dumb." As in our population as a whole.

I think having this incredibly stupid argument online proves that you guys aren't much better off than the high schoolers in this video.

It's 11:45 on Superbowl Sunday. Why aren't you people drunk off your ass already?

RexTalionis: Why aren't you people drunk off your ass already?

Well, I'm not an alcoholic for one.

RexTalionis: I think having this incredibly stupid argument online proves that you guys aren't much better off than the high schoolers in this video.

It's 11:45 on Superbowl Sunday. Why aren't you people drunk off your ass already?

Can't I do both?

As a high school junior, I am ashamed of my demographic.

GAT_00: FloydA: GAT_00: I categorically call bullshiat on the idea that this generation is dumber than yours.


I made no such argument.

The argument that it shouldn't be possible to show wrong answers suggests that in the past, there wouldn't have been wrong answers.


If I say "cars should be more fuel efficient than they are today," I am not implying that the Model-T or the '57 Bel Air were better; they weren't.

By the same reasoning, when I say "kids should be learning more in school than they are currently learning," I am not in any way suggesting that the situation used to be better. I am simply stating that the situation is not as good as it could be.

I'm comparing the current education system to what I think the system is capable of becoming, not to what I think it once was.

This generation is neither more nor less informed than previous generations. It is, however, less informed than it should be (and so were previous generations).

If you really want to make this argument about generational politics, rather than about the American tradition of anti-intellectualism, then I'm on your side, since it is my generation and the one ahead of mine that are currently employed as teachers, school administrators and government officials, and they are the ones most to blame for the failure of these kids to know basic information.

That's not my goal, however. I'm not interested in assigning blame, and I'm not interested in inter-generational competition. I'm only really interested in trying to find the cause of the problem and correcting it. If calling my generation a bunch of dumbasses would solve the problem, I'd do that in a heartbeat; a significant portion of them are. But casting aspersions won't solve the problem, so I won't bother.

Should high school students know the capitol of their state? Should they know who the vice president is? Should they know in which war the US gained our independence? Should they know how many stars are on the flag and why? The answer to all of those questions is yes. They should.

They don't all know these facts, and that is a problem. Previous generations were not any more intelligent or better informed, and that is also a problem. But the fact that my generation and the generations that came before me were not any better does not, by itself, justify allowing the problem to persist. (Unless we think that everything is just fine the way that it is, and neither of us think that.)

Meh, I blame the parents for coddling their snowflakes and giving them excuses for their failures. Oh, little johnny has ADD/Asperger's/trend of the year diagnosis/excuse.

/and participation ribbons.
// But, but, but, parenting is haaarrrd
///and takes effort.
////snowflakes raising snowflakes

FloydA: There should not be any high school students who can't answer all of those questions correctly. The fact that even one student can't answer those questions is a sign that we are doing something wrong.

I assure you that many, many, MANY people can not and should not be able to answer all those questions.

For example, the state capitols. That's third grade information. If you've got shiat to do, you forget it in the intervening years. Give me the kid who knows two or more languages over the dork who still remembers all the state capitols any day.

Then there's just a percentage of people who will never get anything right. You mother, for example, talking about shiat you liked as a kid, will screw up ALL the names, amirite?

This country in which this was filmed's name starts with a 'T', not a 'U'.

/Just saying.

"I was...never taught that."

"Uuutopia?"

"The Korean War? Yes!"

"The Vice President? Bill Clinton."



*facepalm*

That was fun.

Saw similar results way back in the late 70s USAF basic training. Recruits were asked who was the President, the Vice-President, their Congressional Representatives and Senators, etc. Everyone bombed. They did get the President right though mostly.

Scruffinator: Apos: "I was...never taught that."

"Uuutopia?"

"The Korean War? Yes!"

"The Vice President? Bill Clinton."



*facepalm*

My favorite was the girl: "Canada....? No, wait, that's a state, nevermind."

I really want that to be fake.

I think "vice president Bin Laden" has that one beat, but not by much.

FloydA: Scruffinator: Apos: "I was...never taught that."

"Uuutopia?"

"The Korean War? Yes!"

"The Vice President? Bill Clinton."



*facepalm*

My favorite was the girl: "Canada....? No, wait, that's a state, nevermind."

I really want that to be fake.

I think "vice president Bin Laden" has that one beat, but not by much.


Ok,that one had to be a joke. I refuse to believe that they're *that* ignorant.

Right? Right?


Heaven help us.