Newsweek: 38 Percent of Americans Fail Citizenship Test
The new issue of Newsweek poses an interesting question: Just how much do we know about our own country? According to the data, not much. The magazine polled 1,000 adults with questions from the United States Citizenship Test, and 38 percent failed.
Some other stats include 29 percent being unable to name our current vice president, and six percent didn’t know when Independence Day was.
As we all know, stats can say anything you want, but Andrew Romano makes a good point:
For years, Stanford communications professor James Fishkin has been conducting experiments in deliberative democracy.
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