Americans Are Not Only In A Recession

They're ass dumbs to boot.

When the majority of the population is so illeterate as to not be competive with first world countries. Your only chance is Extreme Capitalism. And what path have we decided? Socialism. It has never worked based on any model in history and will not work now. But we are so screwed, so deparate for one more day at the top of the pyramid, that we sacrifice our children's future for one more hit of that Utopia. The penalty is unfathomable.

But only half the population understands what a precipitation forecast means well enough to make a fully informed answer, a new study finds.

If, for example, a forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of rain, many people think it means that it will rain over 20 percent of the area covered by the forecast. Others think it will rain for 20 percent of the time, said Susan Joslyn, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Washington who conducted the study.

The reality: "When a forecast says there is a 20 percent chance of rain tomorrow it actually means it will rain on 20 percent of the days with exactly the same atmospheric conditions," Joslyn explained.

Put another way, on that day there's an 80 percent chance there will be no rain anywhere in the forecast area.