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As the article points out, there isn't evidence that Americans are less intelligent or lazier than people in other advanced countries. In fact, we work harder and are more productive. But Americans are bombarded with disinformation from well-funded right-wing media outlets on television, radio, and the Internet. To find the evidence for this one only has to observe the similarity in the talking points from Fox, the Republican candidates and then any anti-intellectual American on the street. Disinformation is more insidious than pure ignorance because it reinforces an alternative model of how the world works. Also, to change the mind of an ignorant person requires only to present the facts. To change the mind of a misinformed person requires them to first abandon their entire world view.
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