Word: surveying
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...seem unlikely, but according to a recent National Geographic Society survey of nine countries, Americans ranked at the very bottom in their knowledge of geography. When asked to identify 16 spots on the map, including the United States, the Soviet Union, the Pacific Ocean and the Persian Gulf, American adults averaged 8.6 correct answers. Swedes ranked the highest, with 11.6 points...
Unfortunately, that pedagogical approach was thrown out with mandatory school prayer and other relics of the conservative, unmissed past. And the results of changes in educational direction are glaringly obvious from the poll's findings: American adults may have scored poorly on the survey, but Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old category did even worse, placing last out of nine countries, including Mexico, Canada, Great Britain and Japan...
Much has been written about the narrow concepts of the so-called American Dream, about the pressing need to reform America's educational system, about the ignorance of its schoolchildren. And as the National Geographic survey underscores, most of it is true...
...survey of 502 likely voters on Friday and Saturday, the two days immediately following the Democratic Convention, said Dukakis was favored by 50 percent and Bush by 40 percent. A pre-convention survey in Texas by Hart had the two candidates tied at 46 percent each...
Though discouraging enough, the USDA report may understate the problem. "The commercial surveys will doubtless be bolder, and lower, than those of USDA," says Conrad Leslie, one of the nation's leading private crop forecasters. Leslie predicts a corn crop of 4.4 billion bu., 800 million bu. less than the USDA estimate. A survey by the National Corn Growers Association is even more pessimistic, predicting that this year's corn yields will be down as much as 42% from last year's. The USDA estimates assume normal weather for the rest of the growing season, even though most long-range...