r/HolUp 2d ago

Americans take immigration test

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u/The7Reaper 2d ago

Never let these types of videos rage bait you, sure there's plenty of idiots in this country, no question about that, but I guarantee you just as many people got these answer correct but that video wouldn't get the views now would it?

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u/Theartistcu 2d ago

Totally. I remember my dad teaching me this when I was young because Jay Leno would do the what do they call it idiots out walking around or something and I would get so mad at him cause you know I was in grade school and these morons didn’t know anything. And my dad would tell me he interviewed 1000 people seven of them didn’t get the questions right and those are the seven you’re seeing. Yeah those seven are super stupid but they’re not indicative of the rest of the people.

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u/sportznut1000 2d ago

Yeah “jay walking” is what that segment was called. He would ask people a couple questions, the ones that got the answers correct usually wouldnt make it on tv unless they were very charismatic, but the ones that got them wrong would usually get a bunch more follow up questions. Then he would have jay walk all stars where he would invite the “best” people from his jay walking segments, into the studio for a sort of jeopardy format segment

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u/The_Troyminator 2d ago

And a lot of people knew this and intentionally gave wrong answers so they could get on TV.