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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people don’t even know their own state capital. Or the nations capital. Or who the first President was.

This shouldn’t be surprising.

At least they didn’t say Indian Ocean.[/quote]

Honest question that I’ve been wondering about since I was a kid: why do so many people conflate the ability to memorize completely unimportant facts with intelligence?  (e.g. who gives a shit if you know every state capital?)[/quote]

It's not a mark of intelligence, but it is a mark of education and knowledge rather than ignorance.[/quote]

And yet the OP described the women as “stupid”, not “ignorant” or “uneducated”.

So again, people conflate knowledge with intelligence.  They’re often correlated, but not necessarily.[/quote]

I don't know. I mean, you should be able to pick up the names of the oceans to the east and west of the US even if you didn't study it in school. It comes up... in a movie set in LA, when you see a map of the US, when you watch the weather before a hurricane. Thi is VERY basic stuff.

Not having a clue which is the Pacific and which the Atlantic suggests both ignorance and lack of intelligence to me. [/quote]

Or lack of curiosity [/quote]

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