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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1197891" data-attributes="member: 7464">What's truly frightening is when they ask that question about various states in the USA. I've seen studies where they asked New York high school grads to draw a map of the USA. Some of the results were funny... in a frightening way, with New York and Long Island easily as big as alaska, Hollywood marked as a state, etc... Other times they were asked to fill in a map of the USA - with the borders of the states all drawn in - and label each state. My own state - New Mexico - was left out of the majority of them (random state names were guessed), though a few of them labeled Mexico as New Mexico. At least one marked "Texico" in the space for New Mexico. They mostly got Texas, California, and Florida right. Some of them mislabeled New York itself. It's awful. It's just sad. Currently, lots of people believe Saddam Hussein planned 9/11. Not that he was obliquely involved, as might easily be true, but that he was the lone mastermind behind it all. Some people believe we're in Iraq to find Osama bin Laden. Some people don't realize that the operations in Afganistan and Iraq were two different operations. A majority of polled US citizens believe that we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - they assume that since they keep hearing about Iraqi WMDs on the news that we must have found them. If they hear questions about not having found them yet they seem confused "I though we found those a long time ago. Didn't I see it on the news?" I don't mind people having opinions - of any sort - but I wish they could grasp the basic facts beforehand. I loathe to think that some of these people are voting - how can they possibly understand the issues?  OK, I may be getting too political for ENworld. I'll be quiet now.</blockquote>

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