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I happened to flick by today tonight and they were talking about children's spelling. They gave spelling tests made in the 1970s to children today to see how we were going and how each state compared.

The funny thing is that they said they tested 99 children, which would mean that (if you include NT) they would have tested on average 14 students per state! Talk about a representative sample size!

While I didn't pay attention to which state won, what happened next totally astonished me.

Plastering a big 4/15 on the screen, they announced that "on average, students got 4 out of 15 words wrong"

Well I'll be damned if I know any teacher that stamps 0/15 on a test paper that a student has aced.

Gotta <3 Today tonight

[Vadnal]

That is simply ridiculous.

[hyperblade01]

I saw that as well! Funny how they had to switch the numbers&wording a bit to make us look bad

I also missed who was the best state :S

[methodsboy]

The funny thing is that they said they tested 99 children, which would mean that (if you include NT) they would have tested on average 14 students per state! Talk about a representative sample size!

That's biased infiltrated data, that is!

[Gloamglozer]

They might be able to catch us out on spelling but clearly not in Maths lol. 

[TrueLight]

today tonight is the biggest load of manipulative biased crap ever....and thinking i used to like it back when naomi robsin was there how naive i was...sigh...

[cobby]

lol, I saw that too,
I did a double take off the t.v, then they said that was how many each student got wrong haha

[Over9000]

I wonder how smart the people at today tonight are, for adults, maybe we shud test them out on their ability to write analytical essays on novels and their abilities to do calculus and trig, I think we wud be seeing higher scores than the kids that they tested (i.e they wud perform worse). People who feel they are incompetent at things tend to try and make others feel the same way, maybe thats what their doing?