Understatement: ‘Oklahoma Students Fail’
These are results from the Oklahoma council of Public Affairs. Looks like they gathered the time to ask 1,000 high school students 10 generic questions. The results set the Idiocracy Gauge on fire.
Take a moment, statistics can be fun, more beyond the fold.
Here is how the Local news reported on the disaster.
- News9.com – 75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can’t Name the First President of the U.S.
- ocpathink.org – September 2009 – Volumn 16 Number 9
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If HS students aren’t being graded, 75% will goof-off. I’d imagine that many of these students actually know better, but just blew off the test because they thought that was cooler than being right.
I don’t imagine many of these kids do know better. So many kids my age know hardly anything about the country, government, etc.
[...] Q: Is our children learning? [...]
And thus the question is answered.
Uh, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, it’s the Democratic Party.
The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs is a right-wing, Republic Party-affiliated organization, so that’s why they politicize the name of the Democratic Party. At least they didn’t call them the Democrat National Socialist Party, as was proposed by a member of the RNC.
In response to another comment. See in context »More bible study! Yeah, that will sure solve the problem (not).
Unfortunately, THIS IS PRECISELY THE RESULT in a society in which learning is mocked and ridiculed as “elitist”. I blame the far-right who have, for years now, forcefully insisted that gut instinct is more important than facts, and that anybody hwo wants to learn is a pussy.
Let’s call it a day now. Cryogenics anyone?
No, it’s suicide again for me.
In response to another comment. See in context »[...] We steal the chart from Jeff Hoard: [...]
Wish they had tested the parents of these HS kids as well. It would have been interesting to see if there were any correlation between the test scores of parents and child.
The problem isn’t just with the kids:
Beyond those who aren’t willing, there are those who aren’t able:
“Information is the currency of democracy.” (Thomas Jefferson)
In response to another comment. See in context »We can hope that because it was a phone survey the respondents were pulling someone’s leg. I mean this is abysmal. If true we should be frightened.
[...] Where does your state rank? September 18, 2009 — Richard Now With More Molecules!: [Via Balloon Juice] Q: Is our children learning? [...]
This is astonishing. Are we sure it’s not a hoax?
[...] So much concentrated sucking stupidity… Only 19% of American high school students know that George Washington was the first President of the… [...]
[...] I’m so disappointed, because with these answers, I’d totally have rocked in Oklahoma. [...]
[...] Another issue was how the poll was administered. The students were polled over the phone, and were given no options. I’m sure that the results would be much better if it were a written multiple choice exam. Also, students were told that answering “I don’t know” was ok, so you have that answer vary per question from 10% to 58%. Also, the students couldn’t have felt that much was on the line by taking this random poll. So you can imagine students either not bothering to answer questions they knew, or intentionally giving wrong answers, as suggested by the 11% who answered that the two major political parties in the U.S. were “Communist and Republican.” (You can view the answer distributions here). [...]
This is a known hoax: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/are-oklahoma-students-really-this-dumb.html
The real idiocracy here is that anyone would fall for such obvious nonsense. Do you really think not a single student in 1,000 would get at least 8 questions right? Did you even look at that table before posting it?