Blogcritics: Comments on Grounded 'til the End of the World

Comment by alienboy

Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:06:18 EST

One of the roles of a good government is to protect the people from their own worst impulses, you know, checks and balances... there are good reasons children don't vote!

Comment by Dave Nalle

Tue, 8 Feb 2005 02:11:51 EST

Welcome to the new generation your government schools have created for you. The mindless armies of loyal statists. Dave

Comment by Roy Smith

Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:15:18 EST

From an email I received from David Yalof, one of the researchers at the University of Connecticut who was involved in the survey:

The finidngs that were publicized this past week represent only a first cut at the data. In future roll-outs (approximately one every couple of months) we will analyze the data by race, gender, GPA (self-reported by the student), and geographic region (northeast, south.etc.)

It will be interesting to see these results.

Comment by Temple Stark

Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:34:02 EST

That survey WAS crazy and scary. But there area lot of adults who believe - who want to believe that as well. I wonder what the survey would have yielded 30 years ago?

Comment by Brian

Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:43:06 EST

Well I couldn't find anything by state but here is the website for the survey: http://firstamendment.jideas.org/index.html

Comment by Roy Smith

Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:33:02 EST

Does anybody know if they analyzed any of this data by state, or political leanings, or any other subdivision? If they did, and there is variation between groups, that could make for interesting discussion.

Comment by jadester

Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:21:27 EST

nicely put. Unfortunately, i suspect there are quite a few teenagers here in England who should be told something similar.