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Meet the voting public

http://econ4u.org/blog/index.php/2009/05…

Poll: How many millions are in a trillion?

  • One Thousand Times- 18%
  • Ten Thousand Times- 12%
  • One Hundred Thousand Times- 21%
  • One Million Times- 21%
  • Ten Million Times- 17%
  • Don’t Know- 12%

These people voted for Obama.

Excuse me while I go weep.

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5 Responses to “Meet the voting public”

  1. Fred Z Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Democracy is built on the theory that stupidity and ignorance are evenly distributed and the dumbass votes on all sides cancel out.

    I fear we know more about statistics now than then.

  2. Bertie Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Is there any evidence for the superiority of a democracy based only on being an adult citizen verse being a property holder? It seems that things were much better set up at the start of the country.

  3. William Newman Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    I’m still at the cringing stage.

    (On the not-yet-famous Newman scale of public choice appreciation… 1. Indignation. 2. Cringing/flinching. 3. Weeping. 4. ??? 5. Profit!)

  4. Paavo Ojala Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    It’s a trick question, cause I’m from a long scale country.

    Cause trillion is french for billion.

  5. Paavo Ojala Says:
    May 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    no. billion is french for trillion. what i meant to say was that trillion in french is billion.