Kids name Buzz Lightyear as first man on moon

[wickann15]

A large number of British children believe Buzz Lightyear was the first person to walk on the moon and that Darth Vader's Deathstar from Star Wars is the furthest planet from Earth.
A survey of 2000 children aged 6-12 years in the UK revealed most youngsters have trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction, and lacked basic knowledge of key events in history, London's Telegraph newspaper reports.
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One in five children believed Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear was the first person to set foot on the moon and one in six said the Deathstar was the most distant planet from Earth.
One- third of the children surveyed also did not know that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, with nine percent giving credit to Deal or No Deal host Noel Edmonds.
One in six children incorrectly identified US President Barrack Obama as either Mr T from the A-Team, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton or Nelson Mandela.
But while their knowledge of history was somewhat muddled, the children proved to be far more aware of what was happening in the lives of celebrities.
Close to 65 percent of the children knew Britney Spears had shaved her head and two-thirds identified malaria as the illness suffered by X Factor judge Cheryl Cole.
Children's author Christopher Lloyd told the Telegraph there was a lot of confusion among children about historical events.
''Young people have little or no context when it comes to knowledge about the past," Mr Lloyd said.
"Often they know a great deal about a few topics, but seldom do they have any idea of the big picture - Neil Armstrong would not be happy to learn a plastic action figure is getting the credit for first man to step on the moon."

the proof of how dumb British kids are

[ClairBear]

I don't think it would relate purely to British kids, I bet if you did the same survey across USA and Australia you would get a similiar result.

[Stressball]

I'm skeptical of this 'study'. It's like the 'studies' they do in the middle of working days in poorer areas of NYC, asking people to locate Australia on the map. 'zomg 40% of americans cant find australia on a map!' cept they only ask people who are ill-educated, in poor suburbs, in the middle of what would be working hours. If you're wandering the streets aimlessly at 2pm on a weekday looking like a hobo, you're probably not gonna be the most well-informed individual ever.

Besides which, I sincerely doubt that 1 in six kids identified Barack Obama as Mr T, Lewis Hamilton or Nelson Mandela without being lead into it. What would prompt a 6-12 year old to think of those names when they saw a photo of Obama? I would expect that they were asked multiple choice and didn't know, so they picked at random.

[CSP]

scarier is adults don't know basic knowledge...

[Sabbath']

scarier is adults don't know basic knowledge...

Yup...6:08 "First man to walk on the moon?"
"John Glenn"
"Some Russian"
"That was re-incarnated"

6:58 "Was Star Wars based on a true story, true or false"
"True"

And....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmD0V...eature=related

[acarmody]

scarier is adults don't know basic knowledge...

HAHAHA Thats a friggin huge laugh.

[VjamesY]

One in six children incorrectly identified US President Barrack Obama as either Mr T from the A-Team, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton or Nelson Mandela.

Mr T would be an awsome President!

[fuzzy2308]

[STEEV888]

you can say whoever you want landed on the moon but you'd still be wrong because it never happened

[NonStick Squid]

heres comes an off topic debate..

[ClairBear]

you can say whoever you want landed on the moon but you'd still be wrong because it never happened

No, you just believe the conspiracy stories, which you are entitled to, however the reality is man did land on the moon.

[1SIKR8]

bahahahahhahaha that video was classic

as for man walking on the moon, who cares if they did or not ? if they ... congrads if they didn't ? so what it sure as hell looked good and kept us dreaming of been up there one day

[Sabbath']

Sigh...an american trying to be funny and prove people wrong...while making an idiot out of himself.

[Darcon666]

"I see stupid people........."

Unfortunately they are everywhere, in every country!!!!!