Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by stripes4 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:22 pm

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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:35 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
The above is actually a pretty cool game. I tried it 3 times, and get stuck - I can't get 55,000 points on level 11, so I haven't made it to level 12. My third try I had a traveler IQ of 122, whatever that means.

EDIT - tried it again and got to level 12, scored 59,830 points on level 12, missing the required 60,000 points by 170. ;ob; Traveler IQ 130....

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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Julia » Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:23 am

Coito ergo sum wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
The above is actually a pretty cool game. I tried it 3 times, and get stuck - I can't get 55,000 points on level 11, so I haven't made it to level 12. My third try I had a traveler IQ of 122, whatever that means.

EDIT - tried it again and got to level 12, scored 59,830 points on level 12, missing the required 60,000 points by 170. ;ob; Traveler IQ 130....
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Ronja » Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:59 am

Julia wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
The above is actually a pretty cool game. I tried it 3 times, and get stuck - I can't get 55,000 points on level 11, so I haven't made it to level 12. My third try I had a traveler IQ of 122, whatever that means.

EDIT - tried it again and got to level 12, scored 59,830 points on level 12, missing the required 60,000 points by 170. ;ob; Traveler IQ 130....
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Post by GenesForLife » Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:52 am

This is what you call pig ignorant.

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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Tigger » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:28 am

:sighsm: I tried that quiz, and my geography is pants. It's not lack of interest/intelligence, it's just that the stuff leaves my head if there's no regular reason to keep it there. I don't habitually have to know where Dar Es Salaam is on a daily basis (I just got a surprise when I Googled it then :roll: ), so it gets put on the back burner and then extinguishes. It's like my memory for names of people, and that's pretty embarrassing for me too.
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Pappa » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:46 am

Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
I scored 140,883. I made one particularly massive mistake because I rushed one answer and clicked a space where I was expecting to see Madagascar before realising it was off the coast of South America. :hehe:
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Pappa » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:56 am

Pappa wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
I scored 140,883. I made one particularly massive mistake because I rushed one answer and clicked a space where I was expecting to see Madagascar before realising it was off the coast of South America. :hehe:
I just did it again with different questions and scored 253,078. It gets a bit easier when you get used to the speed element.
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Tigger » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:05 am

I have placelexia.
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Hermit » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:28 am

Geographic ignorance is global. I once traveled west in my country, expecting to eventually cross into Switzerland, and fell into the Indian Ocean instead.

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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by JimC » Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:57 am

Pappa wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
I scored 140,883. I made one particularly massive mistake because I rushed one answer and clicked a space where I was expecting to see Madagascar before realising it was off the coast of South America. :hehe:
:whisper: You did mean Africa there, didn't you Pappa...
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Re: Are our kids just pig ignorant!?

Post by Pappa » Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:17 pm

JimC wrote:
Pappa wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:Find out how pig ignorant you are at geography: http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
I scored 140,883. I made one particularly massive mistake because I rushed one answer and clicked a space where I was expecting to see Madagascar before realising it was off the coast of South America. :hehe:
:whisper: You did mean Africa there, didn't you Pappa...
I mean that in my haste, I clicked a space off the coast of South America and wondered why Madagascar wasn't there before realsing that the pointy bottomed continent I was looking at wasn't actually Africa. :hehe:
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