@petergleick Reminds me of a time I was in a debate in 9th grade about the state of education in the US--I was on the "it's not good" side. I had dug up a statistic that said that something like 33% of students at a university in Florida couldn't find the Pacific Ocean on a map. My opponent argued that because Florida borders the Atlantic, that shouldn't be surprising. I responded with something like "It's the single biggest object on the face of the Earth--how can you miss it?!?"
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