Cbsnews W/couric Viewers = Morons

[IllustriousPotentate]

The Pew Research Center released a study a couple weeks ago where they asked people who regularly watch various news related channels/shows three questions:

1. The current majority party in Congress
2. The current Secretary of State
3. The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

[Source]

Question #1: (Average 53% correct)
Top 10
1. Hannity & Colmes (84%)
2. Rush Limbaugh (83%)
3. Lou Dobbs Tonight (79%)
4. Hardball (76%)
5. Political magazines (74%)
6 (tie). NPR, Colbert Report (73%)
8 (tie). New Yorker/Atlantic, Business magazines (71%)
10. O'Reilly Factor

Bottom 10
1. Religious radio (39%)
2. Access Hollywood (43%)
3. National Enquirer (44%)
4. Personality magazines (45%)
5. CBS News w/Katie Couric (46%)
6. The Weather Channel (48%)
7 (tie). CNBC, Letterman/Leno (51%)
9. Morning news shows (53%)
10 (tie). Local TV news, NBC News w/Brian Williams (55%)

Question #2 (Average 42% correct)
Top 10
1. Hannity & Colmes (73%)
2. NPR (72%)
3 (tie). New Yorker/Atlantic, Rush Limbaugh (71%)
5. Hardball (66%)
6. Colbert Report (65%)
7. Business magazines (64%)
8. Lou Dobbs Tonight (61%)
9. O'Reilly Factor (60%)
10 (tie). Sunday AM Talk TV, BBC, C-SPAN (59%)

Bottom 10
1. National Enquirer (32%)
2. The Weather Channel (34%)
3 (tie). CBS News w/Katie Couric, Access Hollywood (37%)
5. Personality magazines (40%)
6. Network news (41%)
7. Religious radio (42%)
8. Morning news shows (43%)
9 (tie). Local TV news, TV news magazines

Question #3 (Average 28% correct)
Top 10
1. New Yorker/Atlantic (59%)
2. NPR (57%)
3. Political magazines (54%)
4. Hardball (53%)
5 (tie). Hannity & Colmes, Colbert Report (49%)
7. NewsHour (47%)
8. Business magazines (46%)
9. BBC (44%)
10. Sunday AM Talk TV (43%)

Bottom 10
1. The Weather Channel (20%)
2 (tie). CBS News w/Katie Couric, Access Hollywood, Religious radio (21%)
4. National Enquirer (22%)
5. Personality magazines (25%)
6. Morning news shows (27%)
7 (tie). TV News magazines, Local TV news, CNBC (28%)
10. CNN (29%)

Answering all three questions correctly (Average 18%)
Top 10
1. New Yorker/Atlantic (48%)
2. NPR (44%)
3. Hardball (43%)
4. Hannity & Colmes (42%)
5. Political magazines (39%)
6 (tie). Business magazines, Rush Limbaugh (36%)
8 (tie). BBC, Colbert Report (34%)

Bottom 10
1. National Enquirer (9%)
2 (tie). CBS News w/Katie Couric, Access Hollywood (10%)
4. The Weather Channel (11%)
5. Religious radio (12%)
6. Personality magazines (13%)
7 (tie). Morning news shows, TV News magazines (16%)
9 (tie). Network news, Local TV News, CNBC (17%)

So, CBS News with Katie Couric viewers, if you want full coverage of today's politics, I suggest you watch The Weather Channel. Or if you want really hard hitting commentary on the day's politicos, watch ESPN (21 % of ESPN respondents answered all three questions correctly, more than any of the aforementioned bottom 10, as well as Fox News, CNN, ABC News w/Charlie Gibson, Larry King Live, and Letterman/Leno).

Your thoughts and opinions? Be sure to check the source link for the entire results.

[Al6200]

How can you not know that the democrats control congress? Seriously, wtf?

[Elfer]

Keep in mind that results where under 12.5% of people got all three correct can't be statistically differentiated and ranked the way they are there.

[Jizzlebang]

At 10/28/08 01:26 PM, Al6200 wrote: How can you not know that the democrats control congress? Seriously, wtf?

How do you fuck up on ANY of the questions?

[dySWN]

At 10/28/08 02:30 PM, Jizzlebang wrote:

At 10/28/08 01:26 PM, Al6200 wrote: How can you not know that the democrats control congress? Seriously, wtf?

How do you fuck up on ANY of the questions?

While they are our allies, British politics don't exactly enthrall the U.S. media. Most folks only seem to care about what happens in their little corner of the world.

[IllustriousPotentate]

At 10/28/08 01:47 PM, Elfer wrote: Keep in mind that results where under 12.5% of people got all three correct can't be statistically differentiated and ranked the way they are there.

True.

But still, The Weather Channel?

[Achilles2]

A human isn't a statistic.