A moment of pause
I found this article that was written by John Tierney of the New York Times (you may have to register to read it). Some of the main things that I want to point out are:
ANOTHER gender gap has appeared, this time on a poll testing men's and women's knowledge of issues in the presidential campaign. On the eight-question quiz administered to 1,845 adults, men were more likely on every question to give the right answer.
The biggest gender gap was on the question asking which candidate supported moving American troops from Europe and South Korea to other places. Sixty percent of the men correctly identified President Bush, versus 43 percent of the women. There were also double-digit gaps on questions about Social Security and taxes.Even odder, perhaps, was the gender gap on a question in the Times poll asking whether Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Twenty-nine percent of men said he was, versus 47 percent women, putting them 18 points ahead - or maybe that should be considered behind.
The explanation of this given by the reporter is that men like to watch sports and therefore are more interested in this election as apposed to others that women might be more tuned into. Whatever the reason something has to be done here.
If you go around testing people to see if they know how to spell "supercalafragalisticexpialidocious" and they get it wrong, you would give them the correct spelling so they wouldn't get it wrong later in life. Right? So where is the part where they informed the misinformed about the current affairs of the country? And how do we reach these people who still believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks?
It's so exhausting to be me.