The National Council on Economic Education sponsored a survey of economic literacy among students and adults in the United States. The average adult scored 57% and the average high school student scored 48%. Take the test, and see how you compare.
Only 6% of adults and 3% of students scored an A, so I should feel good about only missing one question out of twenty, but it’s still frustrating because I misread the question. If I had read the question correctly, I would definitely been able to eliminate two wrong answers. Maybe I would have even gotten the question correct.
I have decided to begin tracking the spam that I recieve to my primary email address. I am hoping it will provide some means of quantifying the effectiveness of my spam reporting. November is the first full month of tracking.
I have been reporting my spam using SpamCop’s free service. This sends a report to the administrators of every system being (ab)used by spammers. I have also been sending a copy to the FTC via uce@ftc.gov.
I recieved 356 spam emails in November. There does seem to be weekly ebb and flow with the levels peaking in the middle and declining by the weekend. Less than 60% of my spam is even in English. The Cyrillic portion looks like Russian, but I can neither read nor write Russian.
