AP/Yahoo! News: 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.
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I know the ericuse documented this two years ago in a class. He asked them straight out what year it happened in and many didn't know.
Of course, really , 30%, who cares? Are they the 30% who allow the US ivade whoever the hell they want? Yes, and no, but I have little hope that that 30% in particular can be mobilized to do anything except buy I-pods.
Assuming this was a poll in which 18-whatver year olds were surveyed, it means that people who were 13 when it happened were asked. If I was asked when the first Iraq war happened when I was 18, what would I say? Well, I'm special.
Well, I guess I should have read the article:
"This memory black hole is essentially the problem of the older crowd: 48 percent of those who did not know were between the ages of 55 and 64, and 47 percent were older than 65, according to the poll."
And so, this is where qualitative or at least more substantial quantitative research should be done. How does this 'memory hole' map on to support for war(s)? Opinion of certain people?
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