The ruinous miseducation of Gen Z, who actually believe America is worse off todayBy Brad Polumbo
July 27, 2023
The average college student graduates with nearly $30,000 in debt.
But if a stunning new poll is anything to go by, students shell out all those tuition dollars just to finish remarkably misinformed.
North Dakota State University researchers polled students from 131 colleges and universities — and the results are quite something.
For one, college students are remarkably pessimistic about American and world history, to the point of complete historical illiteracy.
The survey finds nearly 60% of students think life in America has gotten worse or stayed the same over the last 50 years.
Only 41% correctly understand it’s overall gotten better over the last five decades.
And it’s not a partisan phenomenon: This delusional belief was shared roughly equally among liberal-leaning, conservative-leaning and independent-leaning students.
Just how inaccurate this perception is becomes clear when you consider the exact question pollsters asked: “Based on what you have learned in college so far, do you think that life in the United States has generally been getting better or worse over the last 50 years (considering issues such as life expectancy, income per person, and level of education)?”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/the-ruinous-miseducation-of-gen-z-who-actually-believe-america-is-worse-off-today/
