13% of our youths are idiots

Only 58% in the survey knew al Qaeda and the Taliban were based in Afghanistan. If American children are this utterly LAME in basic geography, I am frightful about their knowledge of more complex subjects, like addition and subtraction. Of course, any quick perusal of the Net can demonstrate their atrocious mishandling of the English language.

The survey asked 56 geographic and current events questions of young people in nine countries and scored the results with traditional grades. The surveyed Americans got a "D," with an average of 23 correct answers. Mexico ranked last with an average score of 21, just three points from a failing grade.

Topping the scoring was Sweden, with an average of 40, followed by Germany and Italy, each with 38. None of the countries got an "A," which required average scores of 42 correct answers or better on the 56 questions.

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When asked to find 10 specific states on a map of the United States, only California and Texas could be located by a large majority of those surveyed. Both states were correctly located by 89 percent of the participants. Only 51 percent could find New York, the nation's third most populous state.
On a world map, Americans could find on average only seven of 16

countries in the quiz. Only 89 percent of the Americans surveyed could find their own country on the map.
In the world map test, Swedes could find an average of 13 of the 16

countries. Germans and Italians were next, with an average of 12 each.
Only 71 percent of the surveyed Americans could locate on the map

the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water. Worldwide, three in 10 of those surveyed could not correctly locate the Pacific Ocean.
Although 81 percent of the surveyed Americans knew that the Middle

East is the Earth's largest oil exporter, only 24 percent could find Saudi Arabia on the map.

HEY TEACHERS!!! WHAT THE FUCK!??!?!