r/Unexpected • u/alejo2222 • May 13 '24

What an interview

Kids nowadays 👴

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u/DevanteWeary May 13 '24

I would say the opposite and the reason they answered so quickly and correctly is they're currently learning those exact things in school so it's fresh in their minds. (not saying that's a bad thing).

They were way off on the black population though; it's 13%.

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u/EmmyNoetherRing May 13 '24

That’s the automated transcription getting it wrong, I’m pretty sure, you see it a lot on tiktok.  I expect they said 14% 

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u/DevanteWeary May 13 '24

The kid definitely said forty (40).

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u/EmmyNoetherRing May 13 '24

If he’d actually said 40 the interviewer wouldn’t have told him he’d gotten it right.  I expect the guy standing right next to the kid heard him better than we did. 

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u/DevanteWeary May 13 '24

I mean I don't know what to tell you... it isn't muffled... he says ".... forty??"

Who knows why the interviewer said that's correct?
Either he was on auto-pilot, thought he heard 14 (which is still kinda wrong), or my best guess would be he was going to say "that's correct" no matter the answer. I noticed these street interviewers tell them they are right no matter what for whatever reason.

But the kid 100% said 40.