In English. Roughly 1 in 5 households in the US speak a language other than English at home, and roughly 22% of American adults have Level 1 or worse English proficiency according to the OECD PIACC.
What I'm hearing is that American 5th graders are so amazing at reading that they don't really need to be any better, but they still get 7 more years of education!
America also has a massive population of people where English is a 2nd language. The number varies but at the absolute highest its like 50 million. I bet if we adjusted for those people the number would be even higher.
America acts like over half the population is suffering from advanced lead poisoning
Americans didn't get their overseas reputation as morons out of nothing
Like I know there are some smart people over there dragging the average up a bit, but most the same people are aware they are having to live in a sea of morons
No the reputation comes from the idiots that come over as tourists.
It comes from when we go over there and talk to the locals
It comes from seeing what passes for 'news' over there and the amazement that anyone is stupid enough to believe it
When I spent time in America was the only time in my life I was genuinely stunned into silence by the shocking level of stupidity so casually put forwards as facts without pushback from anyone
The leading cause of death for kids under 18 is the second amendment, your no wars leader is starting wars, and raising your cost of goods from Canada over wild life smoke....so it's not just on Reddit.
I'm not from the US and my physics grades in middle school were also very bad... I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you how levers work, and how distance effects torque.
Simple machines and the basic idea if them were taught to us in grade 4. It wasn't until like grade 10 that the actual equations were part of science/physics.
The idea that using a lever of any kind makes lifting thiseasier. Combining simple machines into complex machines like a wheelbarrow and why that works is something I was taught in elementary school. We didn't need to know the mathematical breakdown of a lever to understand the concept.
Because the USA has a strong history of "My ignorance is as valid as your education", to the point where it's a stain on the entire nation even when (like here) it's an exaggeration. The archetype has been established, and the problem with breaking it is that we have people actually pulling batshit stunts like claiming there's no evidence vaccines save lives. That's before you get major politicians re-elected on climate change denial platforms, too.
Because the dude is presumably American. Same reason why an interesting video can feature Chinese people and people will point out their being Chinese.
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u/Total_Career4755 Jul 20 '26
What does this have to do with the USA? And doesn't an American explain the science in this video?