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How Well Do You Know Your Own Country?

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:34PM   
from the apparently-not-well-at-all dept.

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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• Re:findings Re:findings (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 04 2015, @03:52AM

  by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday December 04 2015, @03:52AM (#271689) Journal

  This poll has nothing to do with The Guardian. It was conducted by the Ipsos Mori market research company.

  Maybe you are right about the poll, but it's on the pollster to take a representative sample. There are methods to help do so.

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• Re:findings (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday December 04 2015, @09:02AM

  by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday December 04 2015, @09:02AM (#271737) Homepage Journal

  Hmmm. I didn't know that. I still don't believe it is a representative of extremely populous countries like India or Brazil.

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