Eegore
Serious Thumper
   
Online

SuzukiSavage.com Rocks!
Posts: 9440
|
No,he's not Runnin a Scientific experiment to stand up to your scrutiny. He's shining a light on the disturbing level of ignorance of college students. People who have graduated high school and are incapable of basic arithmetic and knowing what is, or used to be, things called Common knowledge. He highlights the failure of the school system.
Jay Leno did a version of this starting March 22, 2000. They just went outside the studio in Burbank 25 years ago and had the same results. As I said before, when Jeopardy started they realized how may humans really only retain "general knowledge" that is applicable to them. A lot of on the spot trivia is failed, that's just how it goes.
Of course you can send teams out to do a survey and see how it goes.
Been there done that. Of 100 humans asked to point left or right without any prior knowledge of the question being posed while being filmed, 19 pointed the wrong direction. 88, yes 88 took more than 5 seconds to respond at all.
Of 100 humans asked to point left or right without any prior knowledge of the question but not being filmed, 7 pointed in the wrong direction. 7% pointed the wrong way when asked to point to their left.
Of 100 humans asked to point left or right with prior knowledge while being filmed, 4 were incorrect. Four.
Of 100 humans asked to point left or right with prior knowledge, 100 were correct.
Just for giggles, pretend it was actually 59/50. Lookin at the video, it just doesn't Appear to take much time, shadows, if half are that desperately Dumb, WTF is going on in our schools?
It's higher than I would like to see, but I am also not surprised based off applicability. In the footage I witnessed of this specific YouTuber asking a question took 3 minutes 17 seconds to ask 4 people that were correct.
Lets say 30 per hour just give them plenty of time, that's 120 in 2 hours. If a video has 20 incorrect answers then 16.6666667% of humans were wrong in that 2 hour interval.
I SUKKT in math, but I would have gotten 3 cubed in junior high. I wouldn't have gotten third planet, because I didn't GAF about the order of the planets. Still don't. I can't name them, same reason.
This is a good example of applicability retention. Some humans would have the exact opposite outcome as they have no applicability retention for numbers but would for spatial placement. This here is an example of why I personally don't really believe trivia questions are examples of "general knowledge".
"General knowledge" to me, is knowledge of things that apply to you. This is my opinion.
|