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Subject: Re: from, who else? The Onion
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:41:51 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
It was a good episode. Showed clearly that a lot
of people have no idea of how to read a map. The
men earned a 74 out of 100 and the women earned a
77, statistically identical in their small subject group.
At 02:17 PM 1/2/2013, you wrote:
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>Subject: RE: Re: from, who else? The Onion
>Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:06:29 -0600
>From: Elizabeth J Cox <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
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>The Mythbusters tackled map reading in their "Battle of the Sexes"
>episode last year. If I remember correctly, there was no clear winner -
>some people are just REALLY bad at it!
>
>Beth
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>From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
>Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
>Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:47 AM
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>Subject: Re: from, who else? The Onion
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>Subject: Re: from, who else? The Onion
>Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:32:36 -0800
>From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>When I worked as an undergraduate student assistant for a major U.S.
>college, lo these 40 years' past, I encountered second and third year
>science majors who didn't know water sought its own level or that light
>emanating from a source didn't somehow 'increase' to illuminate larger
>areas with distance...
>
>The cited statistics seem just about right, given the precipitous
>decline in STEM knowledge and skills among Americans over time -)
>
>Edward Sullivan
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>From: "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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>Subject: from, who else? The Onion
>Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 07:48
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>Too silly?
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>forwarded by Angie
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>Subject: from, who else? The Onion
>Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:34:14 -0600
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> Increasing Number Of Americans Unable To Point Out Map
>
> From The Onion
><http://www.theonion.com/articles/increasing-number-of-americans-unable-to-point-out,17650/>:
>
>
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>WASHINGTON-An alarming new study released Tuesday by the Department of
>Education found that nearly 70 percent of Americans are incapable of
>pointing out a map when presented by researchers with a map. "Not only
>did a majority of people just stare blankly ahead, but nearly half
>pointed to nearby desk lamps in their attempts to guess correctly," said
>Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who called the findings endemic of
>the nation's failing school system. "In fact, 14 percent of all
>Americans claimed they had never 'even heard of no map,' and asked if
>being prompted to locate one was some kind of trick question." According
>to Duncan, the Department of Education has suspended all further studies
>and will instead be spending the next six months just screaming into a
>pillow.
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