Ten Year Olds Are Brilliant
February 20th, 2007 @ 10:06 pmI am so excited for Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? The commercials make it look like it’s going to provide so many priceless moments. It looks certain to prove both (1) that most people really do forget more than they remember on balance and (2) that a lot of the things you learn are lovely but have absolutely no application in your adult life and shouldn’t clog up your brain space. Although none of the questions I’ve seen in the commercials seem that hard - how many sides does a trapezoid have? what’s a diameter? what’s a pronoun? So I suppose maybe I shouldn’t find this so funny - I mean 45% of these people vote, right?
