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funny little story here now that i go to uh... the this group has put together a
taste test intercollegiate studies institute
and it's a civics that s really end at some questions about our government some
slight questions about current events in history and they did something
interesting to you to that american population at large
of course a ever presented of sample not the whole population
and even for elected officials
and i a m
obviously surprised reporters ulc
uh... forty nine percent i'm sorry of the ordinary citizens school just forty
nine percent correct
that pretty much sucks right that's a film score they got less than half right
uh... now i took the test of course right chi reduced or al my turn to not
they can testify is that we went to the website of it
thirty three questions and i'll be fair to tensions
not super easy you know i i take the test
but the football players take
uh... that does yet apparently swirling native a dont
and that s is the easiest as the world that was too close to it and this young
boy out of twenty two so high mean no it's not like that'll be a new that s
quick here in this case some questions which i mean somewhere easy and it rates
right so
forty nine percent alike it are like that number
but the schedule a one
but here's how the elected officials in the united states that
forty four percent
they did the worse than ordinary citizens
they only got forty four percent of the questions right
terrible man
so now course
my guess is your wondered how allied
began his intercollegiate
studies institute and they are tracking how americans are knowledgeable and of
course our elected officials
knowledgeable on civics government
carvers industry
you know i second-guess myself but i went back and change to answers it's
attached no no
i got to know about a mess of unpaid vessel long-shot right
the two that i changed the laws they are wrong
and i'll and the one and i i don't know what along that was honestly totally
vague question
and i and i i would give myself it credit for that one but he did it anyway
lightning minus all three for me if i can and i've got the list rerun
so i got a thirty out of thirty three
ninety one percent
you know what
how does it take to bring about that
and if you'd like a my mind on their work they are fairly tough questions
and look
i do this every single day it's my job bank it's like asking a dentist how do
you do a film if he fails it then he sucks so it's not fair to compare me to
uh... average citizen necessarily now that i'm smarter but it's my job to know
this up
but for elected officials i got a ninety one percent
elected officials get off forty four percent
then that is the scourging
somedays i get discouraged
all right
so don't put these guys on a pedestal man you think they know better than you
this test proves they no less than you