That statistic is skewed bullshit anyway. The only way an American wouldn't be able to find America on a world map is if the map had no borders drawn on it, no words, and the person in question had never seen a world map before. I.E. the person in question is under 3.
I'm on the customer's side. If you actually read the article, Hacker admits that he's the one that mixed up the letters, and the customer didn't catch the mistake. The customer didn't even realize until the next day that it was messed up, probably because it was hard for him to notice the mess-up by looking at it backwards (in a mirror). It probably took a friend making fun of his new tattoo for him to realize it.
Any idiot can take anything about humans and say "evolution may have..." about it.
Yeah, not quite as good as "Thumper Johnson" or "Muffy Heathercrest".
Seriously though, why didn't he just change his middle name to "Hitler" or "Satan"? Megatron's a bad, bad man! Er, robot.