Facekicker Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 If 1 in 10 Americans are to be believed, reading this web page will leave you in need of an urgent trip to the doctor's.A recent study has found that many Americans are not up to speed on technical jargon, mistaking markup language used to created web pages with an STD.Some 2,392 men and women aged 18 or older were presented with both tech and non-tech terms and asked to choose from three possible definitions, with respondents not being informed that it was their tech knowledge that was specifically being tested.Other findings include:15% thought 'software' is comfortable clothing18% identified 'Blu-ray' as a marine animal23% believe an 'MP3' to be a Star Wars robot12% thought USB is an acronym for a European country27% imagine a 'gigabyte' to be an insect found in South America42% identified a 'motherboard' as the 'deck of a cruise ship'The news comes after a National Science Foundation survey found that one in four Americans don't know the Earth orbits the Sun and only half believe in evolution.In spite of the incorrect answers, 61% of the respondents in the Vouchercloud.net study said they believe it is important to have a good grasp of technology in this day and age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downzy Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) I'm surprised it's not higher. In fairness to Americans, I would wager that you'd get similar statistics from other Western countries. If you consider that a large percentage of any population is over the age of 50-60, you can't expect older citizens to know what HTML or a gigabyte are. Both of my parents are in their 60s and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know what half of these technology terms meant. EDIT: didn't read the bottom paragraph. The fact that so many Americans don't know that the earth rotates around the sun is insane. Edited March 5, 2014 by downzy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The earth rotates around America. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetness Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Are there ever surveys like this done in other countries?That's right, nobody cares.All eyes on US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobodys_Fault Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) Who keeps doing these surverys? Seems their only purpose is so people can feel oh so superior to those silly Americans. I'm assuming the questions are multiple choice because there's no way you get a result like "42% identified a 'motherboard' as the 'deck of a cruise ship'" otherwise. Vouchercloud.net studyOh. A voucher website harvesting traffic by stamping their name on a hilarious "study". Edited March 5, 2014 by Nobodys_Fault Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcano62 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 You mean I don't have HTML? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The insinuation with these things is that America is stupid but thats bollocks, it just means people ain't informed about stuff and the reason is that it has no functional practical function to their reality. Quite frankly if i was put to the test and really kinda explored I'd probably come up as pretty fuckin' stupid (i know, shock, horror right? ) Like for instance, ask me how parliament works, the English government etc i have no fuckin' idea. I dunno who the chief whip is, i don't exactly know the function of pretty simple political entities, i just don't know and the reason i don't know is cuz why would I, where have I been or what act have i ever been engaged in that required a knowledge of that shit? Nothing. Ask me the price of petrol, even when I'm driving I never fucking knew. Also like, i can't budget, I see yous lot on here and you all work out budgets and you got this much coming in and this much going and you save this, that and the other, I can't do that, i wouldn't know where to start. Also, i can't cook a meal, never have, i can't like go out and go shopping and cook shit. I mean I'm sure I could I just never have, I've never been like…in a position where i needed to.I could list things all fuckin' day and by the end of it you'd think I was a retard. Now i don't make claim to being the brightest of buttons but I ain't thick or anything, i don't think. Coalition government, again, thats something i don't understand, i don't understand how two people win an election, its either one or the other to my mind. A lot of you fascinate me with your knowledge and intellect and stuff, you really do, i'm always marvelling at how much shit you guys know about all manner of stuff.Point being there's loads and loads of really seemingly obvious stuff that I'd freely admit to not knowing shit about and also I think people kid themselves into thinking that the population of England is. Pop down your nearest council estate and ask a bunch of lads 21 and under who Winston Churchill is, see the results, you'd be surprised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 Some people here seem very upset. Maybe it is because they mistakenly believed they had HTML 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcano62 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Some people here seem very upset. Maybe it is because they mistakenly believed they had HTML Speak for yourself I am convinced I have HTML!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyTron Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Some people here seem very upset. Maybe it is because they mistakenly believed they had HTML Speak for yourself I am convinced I have HTML!!!You mean FML, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdHeartBreaker Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) Are there ever surveys like this done in other countries?That's right, nobody cares.All eyes on USJoke topic or not, I've been sick of hearing about America For quite some time. Edited March 5, 2014 by ColdHeartBreaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Heard the GUI is some nasty shit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patience 4 Axl Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Are you telling me those answers are wrong!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 (edited) Who keeps doing these surverys? Seems their only purpose is so people can feel oh so superior to those silly Americans.Exactly. Why not tell the whole story?....like the one that states: As dumb as Americans are, they are apparently still smarter than Europeans.........34% of European Union citizens do not know the Earth revolves around the sun....that would be 9% more than Americans.http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/16/1-in-4-americans-thinks-sun-orbits-earth/"Here’s the thing, though: Americans actually fared better than Europeans who took similar quizzes — at least when it came to the sun and Earth question. Only 66 percent of European Union residents answered that one correctly." Are you telling me those answers are wrong!? Edited March 6, 2014 by Kasanova King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) Are there ever surveys like this done in other countries?That's right, nobody cares.All eyes on USUh, yes they are and frequently Is that a serious question, do they have surveys in other countries?!?! Edited March 7, 2014 by sugaraylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel Nash Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) To be fair if you fuck a webmaster maybe you can get html for free.Surveys are for fuckheads. Never heard a soul filling that shit. You have to be real low to participate on one. Edited March 7, 2014 by Russel Nash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Nova Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Europe =/= European Union.There's got to be a reason for the high percentage though.. In my country and the neighboring (EU) countries 99.9 people over 18 would know the Earth orbits the Sun. I would like to know how residents of each member Country of the EU answered the question and why so.. There's got to be a defining factor to this, as well as in US' case, which I don't believe to be lack of intelligence.. at least not genetically inherited. Not that that's the issue anyway rather than the level of wisdom.. but still..Are you sure the the site can be relied to have gotten the results of the survey right though? They did write the Sun without the capital S and confused EU with Europe.. I'm sure they did everything possible to skew the statistics to make people look "dumb".... both in the U.S. and Europe...that's the only way these surveys get any attention. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Exactly. Why not tell the whole story?....like the one that states: As dumb as Americans are, they are apparently still smarter than Europeans...As a defiantly non European Englishman I agree wholeheartedly. Fuckin' Frogs and Krauts!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Exactly. Why not tell the whole story?....like the one that states: As dumb as Americans are, they are apparently still smarter than Europeans...As a defiantly non European Englishman I agree wholeheartedly. Fuckin' Frogs and Krauts!!!! And spagnollis and brussell sprouts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) Are there ever surveys like this done in other countries?That's right, nobody cares.All eyes on USUh, yes they are and frequently Is that a serious question, do they have surveys in other countries?!?! I think he was referring to surveys measuring general knowledge/wisdom.. Without the "like this" part in his question he'd have come off as an arrogant prick though.. But they do have surveys like that all the time, bullshit like 'a survey of kids in the UK from 12 to 16 were asked to explain who Clint Eastwood was, 18% thought he was US President' and shit like that.And I don't think they skew the surveys at all Kass, i just think we all collectively have a higher estimation of our national intellects. Edited March 7, 2014 by sugaraylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooting Star Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 HTML might not actually be a STD, but HTLV is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Tweeted by a British 20 year old girl: 'If barraco barner is our president why is he getting involved in Russia, scary' Proof that people all around the world can be dumb. That's not an American privilege. I can tell you that without doing a survey. (Sorry, couldn't post the tweet.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Tweeted by a British 20 year old girl: 'If barraco barner is our president why is he getting involved in Russia, scary' Proof that people all around the world can be dumb. That's not an American privilege. I can tell you that without doing a survey. (Sorry, couldn't post the tweet.)That could be a great name for wild west style hero, Barraco Barner (pronounced like Barracko, like barrack). Or a song? The Ballad of Barraco Barner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually transmitted diseaseIt's not? You get it through cyber sex right? One of those internet viruses? Edited March 7, 2014 by username Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Tweeted by a British 20 year old girl: 'If barraco barner is our president why is he getting involved in Russia, scary' Proof that people all around the world can be dumb. That's not an American privilege. I can tell you that without doing a survey. (Sorry, couldn't post the tweet.)I had not heard of this and just Googled it.Absolutely. Fucking. Brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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