Find out how much you don’t know
by digby
Pew has put together a news quiz. It’s not hard. You can take it here.
I’m a full time news junkie by profession so it stands to reason I would get them all right. Still, it’s kind of depressing that more people didn’t get most of them right.
There is a demographic breakdown that shows old people are more likely to know this stuff than young people and men are more likely to know it than women. But you can’t help but notice that the one thing young people and women get right that nobody else does is the current minimum wage and the poverty level …
I don’t think this really measures much except for the reality that young and working people have better things to do with their time than keep up with the news. I’ve always been a news junkie but even I was far less likely to tune into a lot of this when I was younger. There are huge gaps in my memory of news events when I was traveling or working odd hours or just hanging out with my friends. Still, it just shows how disengaged Americans are. I can’t imagine that’s a good thing overall. Even most of the college grads and old people like me are pretty clueless.
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