Am I smarter than a fifth-grader? Assuredly no smarter than the fifth-graders on the FOX prime-time game show bearing a similar name.
Where do they get those kids? They don't take a random sample from any school; there are no Ralph Wiggums in the bunch.
The other night, on "Celebrity Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader," Regis Philbin didn't know what the "ordinal" of the number 10 was, nor could he identify Robert Frost as the poet who had penned a certain verse (something about a road less traveled). Regis needed the help of one or two of the "average" fifth-graders in the bunch to get those questions right in order to raise more $ for his favorite charity.
I would have needed their help, too. Of course many adults don't have brain vaults like the likely-to-be-alienated-for-their-super-intelligence kids on that show do.
My Goddaughter is a fifth-grader and is very bright, many rungs higher than the Ralph Wiggums of the world, but I doubt she can tell you without hesitation about the ordinals of numbers and/or the work of Robert Frost.
That show is nothing if not misrepresentative.
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that show makes me feel stupid, so, therefore, I will no longer be subjecting myself to it. did that sound smart? And I HATE those kids...and you know every other kid in their school hates them too...losers.
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I'd completely forgot about ordinals!
Is this the ordinal of 10?
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
But that Robert Frost thing. Aw, come on! They should have shoved this stuff down their throats by now...
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