Is it solipsistic in here or is it Just Me™?
These questions come from a Louisiana voter literacy test [scroll down for full test][original here: PDF] from 1964 and *to me* it’s a simple “can you follow directions” test. I remember this kind of thing from grade skool.
Honest question: Is this hard?
Sample:
“Write every other word in this first line and print every third word in same line, [end of line]
but capitalize the fifth word that you write.”
Ok – try this:
Spell backwards, forwards.
I’m asking this question honestly: is this hard?
Ok – this might be a little tricky:
In the space below draw three circles, one inside (engulfed by) the other.
Three concentric circles or one inside the other and a free-range circle? [I vote three concentric.]
How ’bout this:
Cross out the number necessary, when making the number below one million.
10000000000
Right?
Write right from the left to the right as you see it spelled here.
Is that a Raaaacist Trap?
Is this?
In the space below, write the word “noise” backwards and place a dot over what would be its second letter should it have been written forward.
If one can’t slow down and think that thru, howhihell can one evar evaluate the piles and piles of flak-crap they’re throwing at US about the amnesty bill? [like we'd ever get a chance to vote on that...] [and whyinhell can't they just honestly say things like "bringing a bunch of low-wage/low-skill workers in from another country will benefit our country by bring down wages which brings down prices" ... or something][yes. I've heard that argument.]
My fascination with this [other than that I like taking silly tests] is my discouragement with the voting choices of the drooling idiots and ignoratti created [intentionally, IMHO] by the ejamakation industry.
Which leads to and encourages the nasty habit of our “elected betters” lying openly and obviously to US every freakin day™.