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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:
- In most countries, people overestimate the number of immigrants, often by large margins. In USA, the average guess was 33%, the real figure is 14.3%.
- Similarly, most countries grossly overestimate the number of atheists and agnostics.
- The country with the most accurate self-perception was South Korea, followed by Ireland and Poland.
- Mexico, India, and Brazil were the most inaccurate.
- Britain ranked mid-table in 16th place, while the US was fifth.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:05PM
Where do you get that from? On the quiz page I get: "What proportion of Germany's total household wealth do you think the wealthienst 1% own?" No "should" anywhere.
In the article the question is given as: "What proportion of your country’s total household wealth do you think the wealthiest 1% own?" Again, no "should" in sight.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:48PM
They did ask it, but apparently they asked both questions.
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/ipsos-perils-of-perception-charts-2015.pdf [ipsos-mori.com]
Pages 3 through 6
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