James Joiner (via The Weekly Sift):

Last night, NBC News ran a feature comparing students in the United States to their counterparts overseas, which, to be honest, isn’t very well. So poorly, in fact, that it appears the trickle down dumbing down has reached someone in the NBC infographic studio, as their art for the piece proudly proclaimed that we’re 26th in math, 17th in reading and… Wait for it… 21th in science. We suppose this could just be someone behind the scenes with a sense of humor, but with scores like those the odds are probably against it – not that we could figure the odds if we wanted to. Maybe they were working phonetically and had a lisp?