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In reply to the discussion: Has Daily Kos been overrun by xenophobic racist trolls? [View all]tosoris
(23 posts)No one has posted about DU here. Please stop taking our discussion off thread.
As for people being paid to give astro turf opinions it happens in marketing all the time in addition to political stuff. i just typed in google "paid trolls' there is a ton of articles about it so for something that doesn't exist it seems to be commonly written about. How much money they make i don't know. It is not a career I would ever be interested in.
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=48aVVIPuEYH9caf2gMAF&gws_rd=ssl,cr&fg=1#q=paid+trolls
Seems to be the "tired old whine" is paid trolls are like Big Foot. You hear about him but you never seen him. As for "a pompous claim that Europeans are far more educated than Americans" ....uhh I thought you were a European, Aren't you in England? Do you disagree with the various studies out there that say America is behind at grade levels in our public school system or can you give a link to the contrary. Look I don't want to get deep into that issue because I don't want to help you keep taking our discussion off thread. The info I have is from not only are we behind western europe in our schools; we're behind Japan, South Korea, Singapore etc.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248329823/u-s-high-school-students-slide-in-math-reading-science
"In mathematics, 29 nations and other jurisdictions outperformed the United States by a statistically significant margin, up from 23 three years ago," reports Education Week. "In science, 22 education systems scored above the U.S. average, up from 18 in 2009."