Nudder study showing how ignorant Americans really are

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#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on the entire globe.

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#2 According to NationMaster.com, the United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.

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#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.

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#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.

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#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

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#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far.

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#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

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#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

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#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.

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#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world.

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#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.

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#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet.

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#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.

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#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world.

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#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe. 89 percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world.

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#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year. Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976.

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#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does. In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.

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#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does.

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#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world.

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#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse. Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second.

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No it is not a fair assessment at all. The world is a better place because it exists.There is some cause for concern though. They need to figure out that all of the guns in the world will not protect you from the perils of ignorance.

You are right of course it is a beautiful country full of many brilliant, energetic and generous people. We shouldn't conflate the system with the people. You don't blame the student for not knowing what the teacher never taught them.The returns on investing massively in education seem so obvious and the costs of not investing so massive.Also, I like to take my kids down to the riverside park in Windsor, just across from Detroit, and show them what will happen if they don't stay in school and why a little bit of socialism can be a good thing.

If you look across from Windsor in many places it looks like an industrial wasteland. Here is a picture of Zug Island looking back toward Windsor.