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News: Quiz Results: How ignorant is YOUR country?
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Quiz Results: How ignorant is YOUR country?
How ignorant is YOUR country? Take the Perils of Perception quiz to reveal how much - or little - you know about issues affecting your nation
- The Perils quiz, created by Ipsos Mori, tested people from 28 nations
- There are a total of 10 questions based on the selected country
- Questions range from the average age of a population to how many people are online, as well as a country's obesity levels
- The average guesses from each country were then plotted on graphs
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Do you know what percentage of people in your country are obese, or how many people are online?
Market research firm Ipsos Mori has devised a quiz to put this knowledge to the test and reveal how ignorant you, and your country, are to modern-day issues.
Called Perils of Perception, the interactive test features 10 questions ranging from the average age of a population to the nation's wealth.
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The data is taken from a recent Ipsos Mori report that gathered official data from 28 countries including the UK, US, Australia, India, Mexico and countries across Europe. During the interviews, Mexico came out on top as the most ignorant country among those studied. This was followed by India, Brazil and Peru.
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The data is taken from a recent Ipsos Mori report that gathered official survey results from 33 countries including the UK, US, Australia, India, Mexico and countries across Europe. The top 28 countries were included in the quiz.
A total of 25,556 interviews were conducted between 1 October and 16 October 16 2015.
The quiz asks questions such as: 'Out of every 100 people, about how many do you think have access to the internet at home either through a computer or mobile device?' and 'Out of every 100 working-age women in Great Britain, about how many do you think are in employment?'
Other questions test users on their knowledge of politicians, inequality and obesity.
'The intention here is to showcase our findings on the gap between perception and reality and to examine why people around the world are so wrong about basic facts about their population,' explained Ipsos Mori.
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When asked about how many people are obese in their respective countries, India, Japan and China overestimated (pictured). The average guess in India was 41, compared to the actual result of 20. In Japan, the average guess was 32 compared to 23, and the split in China was 34 to 28
When surveyed about the percentage of people within a country are immigrants, every country other than Israel and Saudia Arabia overestimated. Argentina topped the list with an average guess of 30 per cent. The actual number of immigrants in Argentina is only 5 per cent.
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Once a user has completed the quiz, their results are compared with other users, from other countries.
During the interviews, Mexico came out on top as the most ignorant country among those studied.
This was followed by India, Brazil and Peru.
Graphs also reveal where the average answer from each country lies compared to the actual answer.
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2015 INDEX OF IGNORANCE CHART
1. Mexico
2. India
3. Brazil
4. Peru
5. New Zealand
6. Colombia
7. Belgium
8. South Africa
9. Argentina
10. Italy
11. Russia
12. Chile
13. Great Britain
14. Israel
15. Australia
16. Japan
17. Canada
18. Germany
19. Netherlands
20. Spain
21. Norway
22. France
23. Sweden
24. United States
25. China
26. Poland
27. Ireland
28. South Korea
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When asked about the number of people in a country that align themselves to a religion, the majority of regions overestimated, quite considerably in the case of Russia and Spain.
Users from these two countries overestimated by 29 per cent and 25 per cent respectively.
In terms of the percentage of people with access to the internet at home, Israel widely underestimated its countries web access, by 16 per cent, while China overestimated on 26 per cent.
When asked about how many people are obese in their respective countries, India, Japan and China overestimated.
The average guess in India was 41, compared to the actual result of 20. In Japan, the average guess was 32 compared to 23, and the split in China was 34 to 28
At the opposite end of the scale for the same question, Saudia Arabia significantly underestimated. Users guessed an average of 28 while the actual result is 71.
Conversely, the majority of countries studied overestimated when asked about immigration.
When surveyed about the percentage of people within a country are immigrants, every country other than Israel and Saudia Arabia overestimated.
Argentina topped the list with an average guess of 30 per cent. The actual number of immigrants in Argentina is only 5 per cent.
Brazil also overestimated on 25, with the actual result being 0.3.
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Take Quiz: Is the murder rate rising in your country? Think you know what proportion of the population are immigrants or how many people voted in the last election? Test your knowledge and accuracy against countries across the world in the Ipsos MORI Perils of Perception Quiz.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz3uKIZaYlf
http://nextshark.com/ipsos-mori-most...-country-poll/
http://qz.com/563544/behold-the-10-m...-in-the-world/
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Can't say I'm surprised about Mexico.  Things are changing though.
I don't know why Latin American countries think they have so many immigrants, they do not  Unless in Argentina and Brazil the ones that come a century or so ago count
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Ireland slaying 
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Yas at Queen Ireland being so low
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Not China having a lower ignorance level than the US 
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poor U.S. haters 
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Not surprised at us being so high
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#24
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Originally posted by -brian
the U.S. is near the bottom though? do you know how to read data?
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You should take your own advice and read the data.
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Originally posted by -brian
the U.S. is near the bottom though? do you know how to read data?
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huh? I was talking us as in;
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used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people as the object of a verb or preposition.
"let us know"
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"give us a kiss"
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not the us as in the country.
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that was my lil brother on my account, forgive me
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I'm debating if I should be surprised about the top choice or not.
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Mah homies making it to #1.  Collecting those number ones in bad things as usual.
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Once again my irrelevant country is not included in this study, slay!
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How is Sweden and Norway higher than the U.S.
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But I thought us Americans were all stupid and ignorant???  Surely this list is inaccurate...? Someone from the UK please fix this.
Oh, and LEGEND South Korea being on the bottom. Queens of being self-aware!
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The US did better than most countries, so no pages of snarky comments about us for a change. Welp, until tomorrow! 
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