...it's Iran. You know. The country that has been painted as "No.1 Enemy of the Western World" since 1979? One of two countries around the Persian gulf that has a coastline on a different sea (the other is Saudia Arabia which also borders the Red Sea).
Two of the answers at least got one thing correct (Iraq. Does border persian gulf. Azerbaijan, which does border the Caspian Sea...and Tibet. Which borders no fucking sea and it's only obstacle from claiming the title "Most landlocked country on earth" is because Kyrgyzstan has that title locked hard, being double landlocked in every direction except East...where it has the entirety of China in the way).
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
...it's Iran. You know. The country that has been painted as "No.1 Enemy of the Western World" since 1979? One of two countries around the Persian gulf that has a coastline on a different sea (the other is Saudia Arabia which also borders the Red Sea).
Two of the answers at least got one thing correct (Iraq. Does border persian gulf. Azerbaijan, which does border the Caspian Sea...and Tibet. Which borders no fucking sea and it's only obstacle from claiming the title "Most landlocked country on earth" is because Kyrgyzstan has that title locked hard, being double landlocked in every direction except East...where it has the entirety of China in the way).
I guarantee you more people would be able to tell you where Iran is in comparison to other countries than could tell you where it is in comparison to bodies of water.
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...it's Iran. You know. The country that has been painted as "No.1 Enemy of the Western World" since 1979? One of two countries around the Persian gulf that has a coastline on a different sea (the other is Saudia Arabia which also borders the Red Sea).
Two of the answers at least got one thing correct (Iraq. Does border persian gulf. Azerbaijan, which does border the Caspian Sea...and Tibet. Which borders no fucking sea and it's only obstacle from claiming the title "Most landlocked country on earth" is because Kyrgyzstan has that title locked hard, being double landlocked in every direction except East...where it has the entirety of China in the way).
I mean have you never seen those "show me this country on a map" man on the street sections?
...it's Iran. You know. The country that has been painted as "No.1 Enemy of the Western World" since 1979? One of two countries around the Persian gulf that has a coastline on a different sea (the other is Saudia Arabia which also borders the Red Sea).
Two of the answers at least got one thing correct (Iraq. Does border persian gulf. Azerbaijan, which does border the Caspian Sea...and Tibet. Which borders no fucking sea and it's only obstacle from claiming the title "Most landlocked country on earth" is because Kyrgyzstan has that title locked hard, being double landlocked in every direction except East...where it has the entirety of China in the way).
I know where Iran is on a map, but I couldn't say what the water bodies bordering it are called.
Like how I know where my house is on a map as well, but I couldn't name what the side street I drive on most days is called.
Sadly, he went the way I was afraid he would. While there has been lobbying by the tax preparation industry, when California attempted to implement their pilot return free filing program, the major opponent wasn't the tax filing industry, but none other than regular bad penny and anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist. His reason is simple - his position relies on taxes being painful. Make taxes simple for most Americans, and he loses political power.
I can't ever take those "man on the street" segments seriously.
I mean you know they asked dozens and dozens of people and then only showed the few who didn't know.
And the idea of it being "easy" questions so that audiences at home can feel smugly superior in their base-line knowledge of things kinda irritates me.
I can't ever take those "man on the street" segments seriously.
I mean you know they asked dozens and dozens of people and then only showed the few who didn't know.
If geography knowledge surveys are accurate they probably have to ask on average 5-10 people to find 3 nuggets of ignorance, depending on the question. 1/3rd of americans are geographicly illiterate (they do not have basic map-reading skills), with 50-75% show a grave ignorance of even relatively easy questions. Like. "On this world map, where is India?" or "On this US map, where is the state of New York?"
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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Sadly, he went the way I was afraid he would. While there has been lobbying by the tax preparation industry, when California attempted to implement their pilot return free filing program, the major opponent wasn't the tax filing industry, but none other than regular bad penny and anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist. His reason is simple - his position relies on taxes being painful. Make taxes simple for most Americans, and he loses political power.
Have you checked to see if he took any campaign donations from the tax filing industry? Because it's possible for two things to be a problem and that actually seems like a match made in Hell's rarely cleaned public toilets.
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Thanks to a crippling addiction to Geoguessr, I can only identify countries based on their highway systems.
Sadly, he went the way I was afraid he would. While there has been lobbying by the tax preparation industry, when California attempted to implement their pilot return free filing program, the major opponent wasn't the tax filing industry, but none other than regular bad penny and anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist. His reason is simple - his position relies on taxes being painful. Make taxes simple for most Americans, and he loses political power.
Have you checked to see if he took any campaign donations from the tax filing industry? Because it's possible for two things to be a problem and that actually seems like a match made in Hell's rarely cleaned public toilets.
I doubt he would, because the two aren't really aligned. Tax preparers like taxation, they just want to profit off it. Norquist wants to kill the IRS, which wouldn't help them.
I can't ever take those "man on the street" segments seriously.
I mean you know they asked dozens and dozens of people and then only showed the few who didn't know.
If geography knowledge surveys are accurate they probably have to ask on average 5-10 people to find 3 nuggets of ignorance, depending on the question. 1/3rd of americans are geographicly illiterate (they do not have basic map-reading skills), with 50-75% show a grave ignorance of even relatively easy questions. Like. "On this world map, where is India?" or "On this US map, where is the state of New York?"
From my work with tourists, internationally the ability to read a map in general is maybe 75%
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Sadly, he went the way I was afraid he would. While there has been lobbying by the tax preparation industry, when California attempted to implement their pilot return free filing program, the major opponent wasn't the tax filing industry, but none other than regular bad penny and anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist. His reason is simple - his position relies on taxes being painful. Make taxes simple for most Americans, and he loses political power.
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...it's Iran. You know. The country that has been painted as "No.1 Enemy of the Western World" since 1979? One of two countries around the Persian gulf that has a coastline on a different sea (the other is Saudia Arabia which also borders the Red Sea).
Two of the answers at least got one thing correct (Iraq. Does border persian gulf. Azerbaijan, which does border the Caspian Sea...and Tibet. Which borders no fucking sea and it's only obstacle from claiming the title "Most landlocked country on earth" is because Kyrgyzstan has that title locked hard, being double landlocked in every direction except East...where it has the entirety of China in the way).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I guarantee you more people would be able to tell you where Iran is in comparison to other countries than could tell you where it is in comparison to bodies of water.
I mean have you never seen those "show me this country on a map" man on the street sections?
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I know where Iran is on a map, but I couldn't say what the water bodies bordering it are called.
Like how I know where my house is on a map as well, but I couldn't name what the side street I drive on most days is called.
I was thinking of the black sea at first but apparently it's the one further east than that one.
Sadly, he went the way I was afraid he would. While there has been lobbying by the tax preparation industry, when California attempted to implement their pilot return free filing program, the major opponent wasn't the tax filing industry, but none other than regular bad penny and anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist. His reason is simple - his position relies on taxes being painful. Make taxes simple for most Americans, and he loses political power.
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I failed it in high school and never looked back
I mean you know they asked dozens and dozens of people and then only showed the few who didn't know.
And the idea of it being "easy" questions so that audiences at home can feel smugly superior in their base-line knowledge of things kinda irritates me.
If geography knowledge surveys are accurate they probably have to ask on average 5-10 people to find 3 nuggets of ignorance, depending on the question. 1/3rd of americans are geographicly illiterate (they do not have basic map-reading skills), with 50-75% show a grave ignorance of even relatively easy questions. Like. "On this world map, where is India?" or "On this US map, where is the state of New York?"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Have you checked to see if he took any campaign donations from the tax filing industry? Because it's possible for two things to be a problem and that actually seems like a match made in Hell's rarely cleaned public toilets.
I doubt he would, because the two aren't really aligned. Tax preparers like taxation, they just want to profit off it. Norquist wants to kill the IRS, which wouldn't help them.
From my work with tourists, internationally the ability to read a map in general is maybe 75%
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Alternatively, you could find the source they cited.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/taxes-tedious?tab=transcript