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Citation Station: • Nearly 60 percent of American adults believe that the capital of North Dakota is Bismarck.

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    • CommentAuthorphunniemee
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2006 edited
     

    Isn't it?

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    Yes, it is. And this just goes to show that Americans know more about geography than most people think.

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2006 edited
     

    Of course it's Bismarck, and since you suspected that, consider yourself among the intellectual elite. I suppose that it would have been better worded as "In a recent survey, nearly 60% of American adults believe that the capital of North Dakota is Bismarck, 20% Fargo, 8% Pierre, 6% Sioux Falls, 3% Albany, 2% Sacramento, and 1% Juneau." However, that was much too wordy for the efficient fact-passing style that has evolved on this web site.

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    Well how about changing the wording to "Only 60 percent of American adults..."? Or how about adding "(which it is)" at the end? As it is right now I think it infers that Bismark is not the capital, and that the 60% are wrong. It should be worded in some way that makes the 60% seem like they are correct in thinking that Bismark is the capital, and that there are 40% of American adults that falsely think otherwise.

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    Because it takes way too long to get approval from the corporate offices on edits to a published post.

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    Ah, I see. I guess never mind then.

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