Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know

kiwimac · 10-08-2006, 12:52 PM

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks, according to Wednesday's edition of the newspaper.

But when asked what year, 30 percent could not give a correct answer.

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Peter Clare · 10-08-2006, 01:05 PM

Not much point in asking them about WWII then.

kiwimac · 10-08-2006, 01:32 PM

Just a little worrying really.

Kiwimac

spidge · 10-08-2006, 01:51 PM

But not surprising!

kiwimac · 10-08-2006, 03:12 PM

I guess not but ... my God! I wonder WHY I am so surprised by this.

Kiwimac

Gnomey · 10-08-2006, 03:41 PM

Doesn't surprise me to say the least.

Paul Reed · 10-08-2006, 05:47 PM

Considering that only just over 1000 people were sampled, I would hardly say this is conclusive; if you accept that it is, then it also must show that 70% of Americans did know when 911 was. If such a sample was taken in NYC or WA then I suspect the outcome would be very different indeed.

52nd Airborne · 10-08-2006, 05:57 PM

Why doesn't that surprise me!!

plant-pilot · 10-08-2006, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Reed

Considering that only just over 1000 people were sampled, I would hardly say this is conclusive; if you accept that it is, then it also must show that 70% of Americans did know when 911 was. If such a sample was taken in NYC or WA then I suspect the outcome would be very different indeed.

Showing as ever that you can do exactly what you want with statistics.

What do they say? Oh yes, statistics can prove that a 'million to one shot' can happen nine times out of ten.

Paul Reed · 10-08-2006, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by plant-pilot

Showing as ever that you can do exactly what you want with statistics.

What do they say? Oh yes, statistics can prove that a 'million to one shot' can happen nine times out of ten.

Exactly my point - what does it prove, if anything?

10-08-2006, 01:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland Posts: 5,667	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know Not much point in asking them about WWII then.

10-08-2006, 01:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
kiwimac Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 90	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know Just a little worrying really. Kiwimac

10-08-2006, 01:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,054	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know But not surprising! __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

10-08-2006, 03:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
kiwimac Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 90	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know I guess not but ... my God! I wonder WHY I am so surprised by this. Kiwimac

10-08-2006, 03:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,963	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know Doesn't surprise me to say the least. __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

10-08-2006, 05:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France Posts: 3,636	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know Considering that only just over 1000 people were sampled, I would hardly say this is conclusive; if you accept that it is, then it also must show that 70% of Americans did know when 911 was. If such a sample was taken in NYC or WA then I suspect the outcome would be very different indeed. __________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm

10-08-2006, 05:57 PM	#8 (permalink)
52nd Airborne Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone Posts: 1,305	Re: Sept 11 -- what year? 30% of Americans don't know Why doesn't that surprise me!! __________________ *52nd Airborne.* Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

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