The Guardian reports on a multi-national survey by the Ipsos Mori market research company, comparing people's perception of a number of national statistics with the actual statistics. There's also an interactive quiz which allows you to feel superior to your countrymen. Some of the findings:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:05PM
since I just have the data that I get from what I see and what the news tells me. My ego bashed, I'll just gripe -- the quiz offers no citations or details about their stats.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:29PM
Here is the data used:
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/ipsos-perils-of-perception-sources-2015.pdf [ipsos-mori.com]
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/ipsos-perils-of-perception-charts-2015.pdf [ipsos-mori.com]
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