American Ignorance

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   By edmund kim on Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 11:21 pm: Edit Post

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE


   By Jason M. Struck on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 01:01 pm: Edit Post

Damn!

I didn't know the answers to any of those questions!

I wish I had been born somewhere better, like Britain.


   By robert on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 03:47 pm: Edit Post

not fair..! they're tricking dumb people!


   By Tim on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 04:15 pm: Edit Post

"not fair..! they're tricking dumb people!"

With trick questions like "Who is Tony Blair?"


   By robert on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 04:49 pm: Edit Post

haha, and the guy was like, "uhh...skater?"


   By dirty rat on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 10:55 pm: Edit Post

How do we know whether or not these interviews are fake?


   By Abdullah Orozco on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 10:55 pm: Edit Post

Here's the UK version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkwB9ayK4&NR=1


   By Mark Hatfield on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 11:12 pm: Edit Post

They were most likely real , BUT, while they are humorous, remember, the filmer doesn't show you the tapes of people who knew the answers because that isn't entertaining, or let the viewer feel superior. They don't tell you if they had to film 10, 20 or 50 people in order to get 1 who did poorly. Now suppose, they said that they had interviewed x number of people and y percentage knew or didn't know the answers, that information could tell you something, but it would not be as entertaining.

Remember the old commercials of a taste test using butter and margarine. A friend of mine tasted the samples and could tell the diference everytime. They did not use him in a comercial.


   By robert on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 04:53 pm: Edit Post

thats why i love tv...

someday i want to own a station and brainwash people too!!


   By Jason M. Struck on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 04:55 pm: Edit Post

there's a companion video of ignorant britons.


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