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<p>[QUOTE="Forkeh, post: 1239852, member: 31745"]I just realized, looking at the table for that test, it makes our elected officials look really stupid. But then I got to thinking, that's not at all a fair representation. </p><p><br /></p><p>"Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. " </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the elected officials average is going to be lower, when only 164 people represent that category, as opposed to the 2,344 remaining nonofficials. In this sort of setting, one wrong answer from any official has a much greater negative impact on the overall averages, than one wrong answer from the nonofficial group. In fact, on many of those answers, the officials probably scored higher individually, just because the overall averages aren't laughably lower than the nonofficial group.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Forkeh, post: 1239852, member: 31745"]I just realized, looking at the table for that test, it makes our elected officials look really stupid. But then I got to thinking, that's not at all a fair representation. "Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. " Of course the elected officials average is going to be lower, when only 164 people represent that category, as opposed to the 2,344 remaining nonofficials. In this sort of setting, one wrong answer from any official has a much greater negative impact on the overall averages, than one wrong answer from the nonofficial group. In fact, on many of those answers, the officials probably scored higher individually, just because the overall averages aren't laughably lower than the nonofficial group.[/QUOTE]
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