How can you have an opinion on foreign policy or have your child sent to a foreign war when you can't name a single country on a world map? I remember in the 60s parents had sons in Vietnam but didn't know where Vietnam was.

I don't know..

Is being able to identify countries on a map a sign of true intelligence?

I'm sure there are many moronic politicians who can answer many questions of this type.

It doesn't make them intelligent in the right ways.

Not being able to identify one country is very bad. Seeing something like this is useful because you would think it would not be true. Maybe we should move to testing voters or requiring voters to take educational classes online. I would think all classes or testing should be uniform and agreed upon by the public.

If testing isn't the answer, then there must be other ways to help people get educated. We also need to harness people's genuine concerns and needs in society to keep ourselves on track. Healthcare is a topic where we are all over the place. Our Presedential candidates, our Presidents, our individual states - there is no sense of uniformity, and agreed upon final goal even though if you looked closer and asked voters their concerns would probably all be pretty similar.

Are there other countries where testing or educational classes are used or available? I thought I remembered reading somewhere there was a country where every citizen was automatically registered to vote. It would be something to compare voting practices all over the world.

Ignorance is something that can be changed. Willful ignorance is another matter. It is disturbing how many of these people thought their ignorance was amusing..

I saw this recently, and was aghast and amazed.

Stupidity fucks all progress.

And THAT'S why we can't have nice things! STUPIDITY will be the END of us. SMFH!

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!" -- George Orwell, "1984"

"We LOVE the poorly educated!" -- Trunt, 2016

It’s interesting that the orientation of the map is Australiocentric and so also disoriented the subjects.

The person incorrectly identifying Mexico pointed to the position it would be in on a Eurocentric map.

I worry about any barrier to voting. Any test can be manipulated by the powers that be to exclude those who are likely to vote for the other side.

Many Americans have no idea of European geography so that, I suggest is not an indication of Inrelligence but lack of knowledge.

IQ tests are limited indicators as they are geared to particular types of intelligence.

Education is a factor in what people know or don’t know.

The narrative here sounds like ‘let’s exclude all those people who don’t think like me’

Sounds like the beginnings of the line for the eugenics train heading into Huxley’s Brave New World.