Has anyone watched this programme? Sky 2
For those who haven't - its a game show where adults answer questions from the National Curriculum. If they don't know the answer they can ask a ten year old.
I saw this the other night an a junior school teacher didn't know any of the answers or answered incorrectly. The kids got them all right.
To be honest - I wouldn't have had a clue with some of them.
I didn't know how many people got on the Ark with Noah for example. Another question was "what part of a cricket makes the noise" I knew that one :smug:
I was surprised how many adults had to ask the kids for help with answers. Bright little darlings they were!
So do you reckon your smarter than a ten year old? :lol2:
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fk yea..my sons shoes are always filthy..and he cant drive..or smoke..or buy alcohol..or play roulette...or borrow money....or get into debt.....hmmmmm...on second thoughts maybe he is a bit smarter than me..but only a bit mind! 
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Has anyone watched this programme? Sky 2
For those who haven't - its a game show where adults answer questions from the National Curriculum. If they don't know the answer they can ask a ten year old.
I saw this the other night an a junior school teacher didn't know any of the answers or answered incorrectly. The kids got them all right.
To be honest - I wouldn't have had a clue with some of them.
I didn't know how many people got on the Ark with Noah for example. Another question was "what part of a cricket makes the noise" I knew that one :smug:
I was surprised how many adults had to ask the kids for help with answers. Bright little darlings they were!
So do you reckon your smarter than a ten year old? :lol2:
Yes I would think I am smarter than a ten year old.
Also I am not suprised about your comment about a junior school teacher, as some of them only look about ten to me anyway.
What a sad indictment of our teachers when they cannot answer questions a ten year old can...shame on them.
Orgasminator
See, now that program really annoys me. Of course the kids know the answers - they're sat in school absorbing all that info for a good portion of the day. When was the last time you had to think about capitals of the world. Yes, you knew it once - a long time ago - when you yourself were in school. Ask them a few questions about something you do every day and see how many questions they get right!
Yet another lacklustre example of the pap programming that "Primetime" terrestrial TV calls for. One of the main benefits of the digital switchover is the choice to watch something other than that drivel of an evening.
*Him*
(Not detracting from the kids intelligence though - fair play to em!)
Yet another lacklustre example of the pap programming that "Primetime" terrestrial TV calls for. One of the main benefits of the digital switchover is the choice to watch something other than that drivel of an evening.
*Him*
(Not detracting from the kids intelligence though - fair play to em!)
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there is that smiug 'egg-head' team.
set them against some ten year-olds... and then have any differences sorted out behind the bike-sheds.
thats good tv right there!
lp
Oooh! I don't mind the Eggheads, apart from CJ who makes me want to throw things at the screen when he is on.
Does that bloke Kevin know everything there is to know in the world? Incredible.
As for the 10 year olds. As couplefunuk has already said, the 10 year olds have an advantage. You'd be surprised at how little you do actually remember from school and how much of what you do learn is entirely contextual. Plus, I think the kids are prepped if not in the answers, then where to study, topics etc.
To me the show only really 'works' if you have a thick adult on it ready to be shown up. They love it when someone comes on who barely knows their name, let alone the answer to "What is the subjunctive in the following sentence..." (I know that now, thanks to TheLovelyone)
I think Daphne would kick all egghead & 10year old ass though in a behind the bikeshead rumble.
Smarter than a 10 year old - we all are..
Its a question of knowledge - these kids are sponges prepared for the GCSE with answers to exams - we on the other hand are fully prepared with streetwise abilities, experience and judgement making abilities. Coupled with full self awareness and less egocentricity we make a good job of living.
A ten year old is more interested in sniggering at porn and picking their nose whils having no concept yet of why a car at 30mph will hurt when it hits them - its experience that makes the word smart functionable.
Its a question of knowledge - these kids are sponges prepared for the GCSE with answers to exams - we on the other hand are fully prepared with streetwise abilities, experience and judgement making abilities. Coupled with full self awareness and less egocentricity we make a good job of living.
A ten year old is more interested in sniggering at porn and picking their nose whils having no concept yet of why a car at 30mph will hurt when it hits them - its experience that makes the word smart functionable.
I fancy CJ a bit.
The one I don't like is the grey haired train spotter who puts the the uggggh in smughhhh. I like Kevin too and am amazed at the depth of his trivia knowledge.
And I don't know this for sure but just like x factor, where the production team select the deluded and sad to improve the entertainment factor I think the production team at RUSTATYO probably select a proportion of contestants who simply don't know much trivia. Id be pretty surprised if the application or interview process for contestants didn't include a knowledge test to enable them to do so. So when they are presented with a teacher who doesn't know much trivia they rub their hands together in glee.
Incidentally, I don't think the ability to recall random facts has any bearing on the ability to teach. Of course some of you may be able to point me in the direction of research that proves that it does.
The one I don't like is the grey haired train spotter who puts the the uggggh in smughhhh. I like Kevin too and am amazed at the depth of his trivia knowledge.
And I don't know this for sure but just like x factor, where the production team select the deluded and sad to improve the entertainment factor I think the production team at RUSTATYO probably select a proportion of contestants who simply don't know much trivia. Id be pretty surprised if the application or interview process for contestants didn't include a knowledge test to enable them to do so. So when they are presented with a teacher who doesn't know much trivia they rub their hands together in glee.
Incidentally, I don't think the ability to recall random facts has any bearing on the ability to teach. Of course some of you may be able to point me in the direction of research that proves that it does.
I've watched that show and its shit!!!!
I am a parent of an 11 year old and an 8 year old and I'm by no means thick but sometimes the homework they bring home baffles me!!!
I did quite well at school (could have done better but Im sure we all have regrets), I work in adult education and I am still studying now ... but the way kids are taught now and the things they are taught are so different than what I was taught at primary school so how are adults supposed to be able to answer some of the questions?
What I do find shocking is when an adult says they have a degree in say geography and then cant answer a geography question meant for a 6 year old!!!
My 11 year old is quite a bright kid and some of the questions go straight over his head too .... the kids they use on the show are obviously very high achievers .... good luck to them!!
I am a parent of an 11 year old and an 8 year old and I'm by no means thick but sometimes the homework they bring home baffles me!!!
I did quite well at school (could have done better but Im sure we all have regrets), I work in adult education and I am still studying now ... but the way kids are taught now and the things they are taught are so different than what I was taught at primary school so how are adults supposed to be able to answer some of the questions?
What I do find shocking is when an adult says they have a degree in say geography and then cant answer a geography question meant for a 6 year old!!!
My 11 year old is quite a bright kid and some of the questions go straight over his head too .... the kids they use on the show are obviously very high achievers .... good luck to them!!
Sex God
The show doesn't test if the adults are smarter (ie more intelligent) than 10 year olds. All it measures is do they know dead facts from a very specific syllabus.
I have a degree in engineering, a masters in forensic science, an IQ of 130 and a wide and varied range of knowledge tucked away in my brain. However I cannot answer many of the questions - but then I wouldn't expect to be able to. Since the syllabus has changed since I was 10 and that was 35 years ago anyway.
You pitch any one of us on here against a real problem - like how to arrange an appointment with a cancer specialist, how to deal with a power cut, or whisk a meal out of almost nothing for 4 hungry teens - THEN we'll see who is smarter.
Smart people can deal with change/emergencies. 10 year olds just know the facts they have aquired or had shoved down their throats for the exams.
The progamme is fun in parts - but it often degenerates into 'mock the adult' time.
PS. People don't need qualifications to be smart. I just happen to enjoy studying and collecting exams.
I have a degree in engineering, a masters in forensic science, an IQ of 130 and a wide and varied range of knowledge tucked away in my brain. However I cannot answer many of the questions - but then I wouldn't expect to be able to. Since the syllabus has changed since I was 10 and that was 35 years ago anyway.
You pitch any one of us on here against a real problem - like how to arrange an appointment with a cancer specialist, how to deal with a power cut, or whisk a meal out of almost nothing for 4 hungry teens - THEN we'll see who is smarter.
Smart people can deal with change/emergencies. 10 year olds just know the facts they have aquired or had shoved down their throats for the exams.
The progamme is fun in parts - but it often degenerates into 'mock the adult' time.
PS. People don't need qualifications to be smart. I just happen to enjoy studying and collecting exams.
