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To: koan who wrote (28674)	9/24/2012 7:42:59 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 85487

And education is not elitist. Anyone can go to school. E.g. anyone in my state can enter college with no requirements at all; and it is cheap. All they have to do is the work!

To: koan who wrote (28674)	9/24/2012 9:21:06 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

SHOCKER: Fox News Misleads Audience on Climate Change —By Tim McDonnell \| Mon Sep. 24, 2012 3:00 AM PDT UCS staff scientist Brenda Ekwurzel takes a red pen to misleading statements in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial. Tim McDonnell/Mother Jones Brace yourself for some shocking news: a new study on Friday found that the two major publications of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation greatly mislead their audiences about climate change. The Union of Concerned Scientists combed six months of Fox News broadcasting and a year's worth of Wall Street Journal editorial pages for mentions of the science of "climate change" and "global warming," then compared each claim to "mainstream scientific understanding" of the topic at hand. Here's what they found: Data from Union of Concerned Scientists "Everywhere I go, what I hear quoted back to me as scientific fact is often wrong," said Brenda Ekwurzel, a UCS staff scientist who presented the study to an audience gathered to discuss the state of climate communication with TIME environment editor Bryan Walsh and Harvard oceanographer James McCarthy. "That, to me, is so discouraging." What's especially creepy about the study is how low the bar is for what constitutes "accurate." From the study: Citations deemed to be misleading questioned either the reality of climate change or the fact that recent climate change is largely due human activities, or they advanced other arguments that dismissed established climate science. In other words, this is quantitative proof that the climate change debate in America is still mired in bickering over whether the problem even exists or not. Here's the breakdown on the shapes misleading statements took between the two outlets, which together reach an audience of nearly four million: UCS UCS After releasing the study, Ekwurzel led a group from the New York Public Library science branch to Bryant Park, to stage a mark-up of all the errors in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, which was roundly rebuffed by the very scientists it quoted. News Corporation has a history of blantantly misrepresenting science, of course. But since, as McCarthy reminded the crowd, "most of the public doesn't have the opportunity to have a conversation with a scientist on climate change," findings like these go a long way toward explaining why many elected officials are completely intransigent on climate action.

To: koan who wrote (28674)	9/24/2012 9:48:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

College is easier than high school and graduate work is easier than under grad. All yoiu do in grad school is write papers-lol. Perhaps your view is distorted by the apparently fact that you are good at writing papers (either in an absolute sense, or relative to your other abilities or just academic abilities) A lot of people find paper writing harder then the other aspects of education, and find college to be harder then high school, and graduate school to be harder then undergrad. Its not just a matter of subjective opinion either, even after each successive level only takes the above average students from the level before you still get a fair amount of washout at each new level, and that's with people who have above average intelligence (as college attendance has gone up, the average IQ of those in college has gone down, but college grads, or even incoming freshmen, are still above average, and those with PhDs a lot above average).