Those got to be the dumbest people our country has to offer 😂
Dunno, man: 40% of Americans believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. Only 2% of them believe it’s flat, though. We are not an information-rich culture.
79% of Americans believe in some imaginary sky friends.
If you bring religion into the mix, even intelligent people are more likely to believe ridiculous claims. Being indoctrinated from birth is a powerful thing.
I disagree. There is no shortage of information. It’s just mixed in with a shitload of misinformation, disinformation, and bullshit, garnished with slop and irrelevant garbage to also have to sift through to find anything useful.
And we stopped teaching kids how to differentiate because we thought it would be more important to prove through standardized tests that kids are meeting curricula, but that means we all memorized “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” without actually breaking down what that phrase means.
Yeah, having information available isn’t useful in and of itself. You have to be able to think critically to be able to pick out what has merit and what does not.
We are in an over-rich information culture, we just have some really undescerning people who don’t know truth from lies when being bombarded with it all.
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With enough gerrymandering the same 15% could potentially dictate politics.
Probably evangelicals… I know there’s a lot more, but you know, cult thinking and shit.
Came here to say this. I’d love to know what the average IQ is for this 15 percent.
70-85: This range is considered low average, or borderline intellectual functioning. Many people in this range are able to work, have social lives, and function independently, but may need some academic accommodations or support.
That range sounds about right.
Take the average American. Half of the people are dumber than that. Any questions?
They know.
They are pretending not to because “fuck you, you can’t prove I do.”
Yes. Republicans.
These must be those who actually voted. Y’know, because all the ‘smart’ people were sitting it out.
so 35% believe he is guilty and voted for him anyway.
The actual numbers are so much worse. The 15% overall “didnt know” is watered down from ~30% Republicans. They are lying either to the pollsters or more likely, themselves.
I don’t see Trump blew Clinton on that poll. Outdated.
Republicans gotta be the stupidest mfs around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
In 2002, speaking to New York magazine, Trump said “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy.” He also stated that “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
and
In 2017, Epstein told Wolff that he had been Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years”.
Two guys who say they’d been friends for a long time.
Waaaaaaay too high of a number
In other news approximately 15 to 20% of Americans are illiterate.
The average American reads below a 6th grade level. Meaning half of them are competitive with grade schoolers. They are not picking up on nuance or context at all.
The average American reads below a 6th grade level.
Here’s a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.
That clip was a great demonstration. Succinct but informative
It’s actually more like 21%
“Did you know about Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking minors?” - asked no reporter ever
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Thats 15% too much
There is always a percentage of people who are completely disconnected from news, current affairs, politics or anything outside of their narrow experience.
They probably couldn’t tell you who the vice president is or if Epstein is alive or dead without prompting.
My cousin immigrated to the US and wasn’t aware of the ICE raids. Although to be fair, he was a sailor and so he may have had limited access to news while travelling. But on the one hand, with how almost instantaneous access to information these days even if one is travelling a lot, as you said, my cousin may have narrow experience in terms of what information he choose to consume. As in, he maybe only caring about news from our home country.
15% of Americans would tell you the earth is hollow and a race of horse people lives down there, if the question asked about it.
41% of Americans believe in ghosts.
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