The Pew Research Center has just conducted a survey to find what viewers/listeners watch/listen what programs. It turns out Bill O'Reilly's viewers are some of the smartest, and Jon Stewart's Daily Show viewers are not far behind. Pew defined this ranking, however, on the number of people with "high knowledge." What is a person with high knowledge, you ask? Am I a person with high knowledge? Well, take the test for yourself... (These are the exact questions that were asked by Pew in developing their criteria for people with "high knowledge.")
(1) Which party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives? (2) What is the name of the current U.S. Secretary of State? (3) What is the name of the current president of Russia? If you answered all three correctly, you have high knowledge. Now, do you watch O'Reilly or Jon Stewart? 
Tell me about it. It really scares me to know there are so many people who aren't "high knowledge" based on this 3-question criterion. (I also wonder how many people got at least 2 out of 3.)
--  reyonthehill
8/02/2006 1:05 PM
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I was not aware of the survey.
They could ask "who is the presidential press secretary" and Fox news addicts with profound memory loss could still get scored "high knowledge" So now I know what a crock the survey is, but how many others?
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