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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: 2) by Zinho on Thursday December 03 2015, @06:01PM
And it goes without saying that those Brazilian women have butts thrice as wide as the rest of their bodies, which can make things tricky to measure.
Your experience with Brasilian women seems to differ significantly from mine...
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(Score: 2, Funny) by xav on Friday December 04 2015, @01:31AM
Are you sure they were actually born women? ;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @08:16AM
He probably means women from Brazil, not women with a Brazilian. [wikipedia.org]