Comments on: Pass the Clicker: The Future Lost?

By: Matthewladner

Matthewladner — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:01:00 +0000

I have requested a number of items from the polling firm to verify the validity of the poll, and have thus far received cross tabs and call logs. I’m still waiting for a couple of more items.

Note however that the alleged recreation in Oklahoma had these students scoring CONSIDERABLY better than a civics exam given to a huge number of college students in a multiple choice format (we used open answer format):

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2006/major_findings.html

By: JE

JE — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:57:10 +0000

Can’t find an email address after three seconds of trying, but I wanted to make sure you all saw this 538 post re: the dismal citizenship test results you all wrote up a while back. It seems that someone has some explaining to do: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/11/real-oklahoma-students-ace-citizenship.html

By: Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:32:57 +0000

I gave up on it after a few episodes. I couldn’t care about much of the soap opera and sci fi seemed to have some glaring holes. For example, what was the muffin shop woman doing working at 9:30 at night during her flash forward? And who gets a sonagram of a baby at 9:30 at night?

And while they may have gotten A-list actors I don’t think they got A list writers. The dialogue is clunky and the pacing is often painfully slow.

Maybe it got better after I quit about 3 episodes in, but I decided to cut my losses.