Wrong Answer

Just so everyone knows I'm not simply raving when I say that modern college graduates can't perform basic logic tasks, here is an article from a professor at UC-Riverside:

On that same practice test, another student came to me with a problem she had tried to solve; it required comparing two lines on a graph, each of which represented the number of eggs laid by a different group of individuals (female blackbirds nesting in male territories either with or without additional females).

The question asked where a point on one of the lines satisfied a particular condition, and only one answer was correct. The student had redrawn the lines, as if rewriting the birds' reproductive history, with the two lines veering off into a fantasy of communal egg-laying. It was as if she had taken a graph of the exports of China and France and merged them into a new country with a single product.

Yes, they really are that dumb. Unfortunately for them (and us), while it's relatively easy to hide your incompetence in the swirling mass of mediocrity that passes for modern schooling, such blatant ignorance is rather more difficult to conceal in the workplace. Gainful employment is going to be a real problem for a large percentage of these people.

And these are college students; they're the smart ones.

(Hat-tip: Dixie M.)