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by defrost 750 days ago
Have you tried watching Only Connect inside?

Some televised "quizzes" are picked through for the dumbest possible answers (eg: Australian late night comedy shows doing VoxPop quizzes asking 'random' US citizens to name a country starting with the letter 'U'), other quiz shows audition contestents to select a pool of bright people.

Public schools or home schools should ideally teach about innate bias in sample selections.