Hey, Daily Show viewers! Guess who you're smarter than?

[Bicoastal]

Sure, we've always suspected we were waaaay more knowledgable than those held in the clutches of Rupert Murdoch. And yet, no one's found proof of this disparity...

...until now!

Here are some highlights:

"Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot -- with 54% of them getting 2 out of 3 questions correct. Watchers of the Lehrer News Hour on PBS followed just behind.

Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Fox topped only network morning show viewers."

Oh, and here's the icing on the cake....

"Democrats and Republicans were about equally represented in the most knowledgeable group, but there were more Republicans in the least aware group."

[PDittie]

1. Everyone?

I knew that already.:P :evilgrin: :bounce:

[Maat]

2. This is great!!

:woohoo:

[annabanana]

3. Well YEAH!

Of course we are!

[hellbound-liberal]

4. By the grading scale I use in my classes, 2 out of 3 is still a failing grade!

Looks like a lot of television viewers are being left behind. I'd be interested to know the percentage of viewers who got 7 out of 10 right (the minimum score necessary to earn a D).

[Bicoastal]

6. 2/3 ( or 67%)....

is almost certainly much better than the National Average, hate to tell ya.

Most people my age I know couldn't name both senators, much less their own congresscitter. (Course, on that last point, they can be excused--we 20-something types tend to move around a lot.

[PreacherCasey]

5. The title of your post is quite ironic. n/t

[Bicoastal]

7. Ya lost me.

Ironic how?

Former Naderheads Hoping To Draft Al Gore For President ironic? Or Ra-ee-ain On Your Wedding Day ironic?

[Jim Lane]

11. My guess (re irony)

PreacherCasey may be finding irony in a post about comparative intelligence that unintelligently uses "who" when "whom" would be proper.

If so, I disagree. I think "who" is proper here. For example, "You're smarter than him" is wrong, because the sentence is short for "You're smarter than he (is)."

A reworded version of the headline that would properly use "whom" would be, "Guess whom you're outsmarting?" PreacherCasey may be thinking of the people who would misuse "who" in that version.

As an added complication, there's the "I favor whom's doom" faction, championed by William Safire, who would just ditch "whom" except immediately after prepositions.

Of course, if PreacherCasey sees some completely different irony, then disregard the foregoing.

[PreacherCasey]

12. Actually I was just being a nit-picker because I was in a bad mood.

The title of this post is composed of a sentence fragment and a sentence with technically improper punctuation. I found this to be ironic in a post regarding comparative intelligence. With that said, I fully realize that proper grammar is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence. Indeed the accumulation of knowledge in general does not alone constitute intelligence. Therefore, I should have just shut up about it. I didn't intend to denigrate the OP. If the OP took it that way, I apologize.

Cheers. :beer:

[Josh]

8. The article says "there were more DEMOCRATS in the last aware group" -

what's going on?

[Bicoastal]

9. What the HELL?

Um, I am absolutely sure that last line was about Republicans when I cut-and-pasted it. Honestly. All I did was change some words to bold-face.

[Laurab]

10. No, no - it's all good

more republicans in the LEAST aware group!