How Well Do Our Government Officials Know Our Country? at The Black Iris of Jordan

How Well Do Our Government Officials Know Our Country?

23Nov08

An interesting survey result:

US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. [source]

So, how well would would our own government officials score on a similar test?

How well would the people?

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1 Catalyst on Nov 23rd, 2008 said:

I think its part of your culture to want to know more. so you can’t really blame them if they score 20% for example…and they might surprise you and score as high as 80%.

I have friends who never left Amman, some who never (and don’t want to) visit Aqaba…

But lets rephrase the question,if I may…

What is knowing a country like?
2 Hameed on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

Don’t know. Don’t care.

’nuff said
3 mo on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

that’s what the thinktanks are for
4 Nas on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

“that’s what the thinktanks are for”

ah. the perfect answer
5 abu Abdullah Omar Ibn Abu Adey on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

I don’t know if I can comment after Nas’s Last comment , I don’t know what thinktanks are …! but what i know is government ministers are ones who come from a highly sophisticated families and are rich from birth , Unlike Obama
Is that helping out ? these days all we have to know is how to really get our money in the bank and live accordingly , the crises is a plague and it is reaching our savings ( i am talking as a middle class person) .
6 Nas on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

abu abdullah: sorry, didn’t mean to be a conversation-stopper.
7 abu Abdullah Omar Ibn Abu Adey on Nov 24th, 2008 said:

no man I didn’t mean it like that … .