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Originally Posted by MarchHare
That's really shoddy reporting.
What the article in the OP doesn't say (but this one does) is that the survey only questioned Britons under 20. That could mean a 19-year old university student who should know better, but it could also mean a 12-year old primary school student who probably hasn't learned much history yet. |
What the survey says is that 77% of Britons under the age of 20 know who Winston Churchill is.
I wonder if 77% of Canadians under the age of 20 know who John A. MacDonald was.
Cowperson