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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:29PM
Woo hoo! Must be because I watch Fox News religiously. NOT!
I do think their stats are old. Yesterday I saw official stats that in the US the 1% owns 43% of the wealth. This poll thought it was 37%.
Also, the BMI baseline cannot use North Koreans as the standard.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:08PM
So do you watch it agnostically or atheistically? ;-)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 03 2015, @05:04PM
I guess it depends on who is counting, and when.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/wealth-inequality/ [cnn.com]