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posted by martyb on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the 19-percent dept.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation reports:

Just a third of Americans can pass a multiple choice "U.S. Citizenship Test", fumbling over such simple questions as the cause of the cold war or naming just one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for.

And of Americans 45 and younger, the passing rate is a tiny 19 percent, according to a survey done for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Worse: The actual test only requires that 60 percent of the answers be correct. In the survey, just 36 percent passed.

Among the embarrassing errors uncovered in the survey of questions taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test and conducted by Lincoln Park Stragtegies:

  • 72 percent of respondents either incorrectly identified or were unsure of which states were part of the 13 original states.
  • 24 percent could correctly identify one thing Benjamin Franklin was famous for, with 37 percent believing he invented the lightbulb.
  • 12 percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War.
  • 2 percent said the Cold War was caused by climate change.

Also at Sputnik and The Tri-City Herald


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  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @05:57AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @05:57AM (#744524)

    Have you actually looked at the policies of the nazis and compared to those of the people being called socialist today?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday October 05 2018, @12:01PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 05 2018, @12:01PM (#744584)

    Now did I copy this from the "economics of nazism" wiki page or the "democratic party" wiki page?

    public works projects, job-procurement programs, subsidized home repair programs, labor service, a guarantee to maintain health care and pensions, "In spite of their rhetoric condemning big business prior to their rise to power", "they increased economic state control through regulations"

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 05 2018, @05:32PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday October 05 2018, @05:32PM (#744712) Journal

    Have you actually looked at the policies of the nazis and compared to those of the people being called socialist today?

    Yes. There's a very significant lack of genocide in the second group.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @11:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @11:53PM (#744847)

      The nazis did not implement their genocide plans until they had already consolidated power and were in a state of war. You need to compare to pre-genocide (ie, 1930s nazis). It is pretty much the same ideas from what I've seen.