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More on the Monty Hall problem.
The Mathematical Gazette,
November 2009
Setphen K Lucas, Jason Rosenhouse

Lost in translation
New York Times, 29 January 2010
Charles M. Blow

As reported here, "According to a survey released this week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, only 1 person in 4 knew that 60 votes are needed in the Senate to break a filibuster and only 1 in 3 knew that no Senate Republicans voted for the health care bill."

The above shows a portion of an accompanying graphic entitled Widespread Political Illiteracy, which breaks out responses further based on age, education, political affiliation, etc. None of the results are encouraging.

Submitted by Paul Alper.