At least I should say, "college these days" since it appears that older people fared better on the survey. "Sad" is about the only word I can think of for college graduates lacking the basic knowledge of how our government works. Some of this stuff is 7th grade material. Junior High school! And as much as I wish Judge Judy were a Supreme Court justice, what world do these people live in that think she is one.


Shock Poll: Almost 10% Of US College Grads Think JUDGE JUDY Is On The Supreme Court

Eric Owens Education Editor 8:22 AM 01/18/2016

A newly-published report shows that almost 10 percent of America’s college graduates think Judge Judy is a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Among other lowlights, the report shows that almost 60 percent of college grads have no idea how to amend the Constitution. Also, nearly half of the people who have earned bachelor’s degrees in this country don’t realize that U.S. senators serve six-year terms while members of the U.S. House of Representatives serve two-year terms.

The January 2016 report is from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).

“Many of the figures may actually understate how poorly our colleges are doing because older respondents performed significantly better than younger ones,” the ACTA report explains. “For example, 98.2% of college graduates over the age of 65 knew that the president cannot establish taxes — but only 73.8% of college graduates aged 25–34 answered correctly.”

Similarly, though most college graduates who are 65 or older know how to amend the Constitution, less than a third of college grads between the ages of 25 and 34 appear to have any basic understanding of the process.

And just one-third of all Americans can name a single right guaranteed under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The ACTA survey question (No. 1 out of 12) demonstrating that America’s college graduates are colossal idiots when it comes the U.S. Supreme Court asks: “Which of the following people serves on the U.S. Supreme Court?”

On the bright side, 61.6 percent of America’s college graduates (and 44 percent of Americans of all education levels) correctly selected Elena Kagan.

And now for the dismal news: 9.6 percent of college grads (and 13.1 percent of everyone) selected Judith Sheindlin — better known as Judge Judy. Almost 6 percent of America’s college grads said Secretary of State John Kerry is a Supreme Court justice. Meanwhile, 21.7 percent selected Lawrence Warren Pierce, a retired, 91-year-old Second Circuit judge.

Past ACTA surveys show that the nation is quickly going to hell in a handbasket because Americans don’t know jack about the basic workings of their government.

“A survey published early in 2015 found that over one-third could not place the Civil War within the correct 20-year time frame,” for example.

ACTA is a bipartisan group that promotes a broad core curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences and general academic seriousness on U.S. college campuses.

“In today’s world, when so many nations are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to incorporate different ethnic, religious, and racial groups, the case for reminding Americans of their history in our museums and in our schools and colleges and universities . . . could not be stronger especially as that history conveys our nation’s stunning successful recipe, based on the documents of our founding, for an inclusive and tolerant society,” New-York Historical Society president Louise Mirrer said in 2014 while accepting an ACTA award.

Judge Judy — Sheindlin — is a retired family court judge who presides abrasively over her own highly-rated daytime reality show in which she dresses like a real judge and arbitrates small-claims court cases in the format of a bench trial.

Sheindlin earned her law degree from New York Law School in 1965. She served as a real judge in New York City from 1982 to 1996.

The statistics in the ACTA report are based on an August 2015 survey of a total of 1,000 adults across America. GfK, a large market research firm, conducted the survey and weighted it in several categories including race, age, education and income.

 

ANSWER:

All the government and most colleges care about is MATH and SCIENCE and BUSINESS. That is where all the support, encouragement and money goes.

Social Sciences (History, Political Science, Sociology, etc.) and English/Literature are scoffed at and given little support at all.

Students concentrate on "where the money's 'at' ", and neglect anything that will teach them how to live in the world.

 

These are the same goofballs who, according to recent studies, feel "left out" of the 2016 presidential race.

What? The millennials might not vote? Oh no! Horrors!

 

Let's hope that those dumbfucks don't vote! If they all turn out en mass we'll be stuck with that old Socialist hippy Sanders and the USA will be even more fucked than it already is!

 

You would think "How could it get any worse?" Then SURPRISE!! I feel sorry for the parent's who wasted their money on these idiot's tuition.

 

Getting an education does not make stupid people intelligent.

 

Was Shooter the only one who saw the story about how Ami Horowitz decided to see just how silly Yale college students can be?
He went out with a "petition" and asked Yale college students if they would sign his petition to repeal the first amendment.
That's right. The first amendment.
The one that guarantees the right to freedom of speech, and religion ............. and the right to petition...............
Incredibly, most of the students he approached readily agreed and thanked him for his service.
Really.
Not that one of the little vermin had a clue what the first amendment is.

 

A survey of high school graduates and high school dropouts would almost certainly indicate that they are even less knowledgeable. On the other hand, a survey of those with graduate degrees would reveal more general knowledge. Unless a survey like this is matched with a comparable survey thirty or so years ago it does not mean much. Most people know what they need to know to perform their jobs adequately, and they know about subjects that interest them. They know little about anything else. What they learned in school they forget.

 

You had several comments in that thread, but because the post time doesn't show, your comments might have been before CS Natureboy post this. And all your comments were on the 16th, so you probably missed my later reply with the video.

 

Educated idiots. . . . . This country's future leftist voters.

 

Apparently even Sanders is leaving the poor bastards in the cold.

The brats are leeches by nature, and they expect someone else to pay for their student loans, but apparently even the millennial idiots are smart enough to realize that merely dabbling in socialism has raised our national debt to 20 trillion, and there aren't enough producers left in this country to pay for Bernie's grand vision.

 

I had a prof. PHD. Didn't have enough comon sense to pour piss from a boot with the directions written on the heel.

 

In hieroglyphics.

 

Trends are moving toward "online" college courses and correspondence courses in lieu of actually paying through the teeth for a useless degree these days. You think it's bad now, just wait a few more years until this trend "digs in".

 

Im glad I didnt pursue it any more than I did. I make well over double even had I stayed for a b.s.

 

If I were your potential boss, the sky would be the limit on your income, if I had the opportunity to gander at that ass on a daily basis.

 

Hubb here she does have a nice one hehe

 

Ah yes the old refrain. " I don't know what's with these kids nowadays" It's been sung for generations.

 

They're training people to be subservient. Teach students rudimentary math and prepare them for an entry level job after college, and sometimes during college as well. I remember Algebra and P.E. being mandatory in high school. But so many people working at the local supermarket, or clothing store, rely upon the cash register to tell them how much change I'm owed. A lot of good twelve years of school did them.

 

I hope this is readable. Care to see how you do?