http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/dec/02/how-well-do-you-really-know-your-country-take-our-quiz
I was ranked 7 and was fairly off on a few things (age groups, working women, obesity). :blush:
Said I was 4th. Most off answer was % of women in House of Representatives
I ranked 2. Most off was population outside of major city, people who have internet, people who live with their parents and obesity (as I missed bit that it included the overweight as well -_-).
Ranked 1, and it was for Sweden because the drunken British didn't include Denmark. Only questions I was off by more than 20% was about the obese (I was too low) and atheists (I was too high). I think too fondly of my neighbours.
Quite a fun quiz, edumacational too :cool:
Rank 1.
My worst score was for immigrants where I said 8% but it was actually 14%. The odd thing about that being that I knew it was 14 but then subtracted for students, temporary workers etc etc :lol:
Quebec, not on the list. :angry:
Since Austria is not on the list I took the quiz for Hungary and got rank 1 :lol:
IN YOUR FACE TAMAS!
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No Portugal on the quiz so France. Got Ranked 2. Spectacular fail on obese and overweight, I thought France had still some time to catch up with the US, UK and Germany. :Embarrass:
I ranked 1. Huh I thought I was pretty off on everything.
I was way under on obesity because I guess I missed 'overweight'. Hell I am surprised it is not 90%.
Ranked #3. Interesting.
Quote from: Valmy on December 02, 2015, 10:23:00 AM
I was way under on obesity because I guess I missed 'overweight'.
:hug:
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.
Quote from: DGuller on December 02, 2015, 10:46:50 AM
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.
Did you do it for Russia or US?
Quote from: Syt on December 02, 2015, 10:47:31 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 02, 2015, 10:46:50 AM
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.
Did you do it for Russia or US?
:mad: US of course.
It appeared to have a Communist agenda so I dropped out.
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I'm number 1! :yeah: :cool:
Ranked 12th for my own country? <_<
I was ranked #2. I was way off on the percentage of 25-34 year olds living with their parents, but fairly close on most of the rest, and spot on on a few.
I am very good at it, it seems! Most of my answers are either spot on or very close to the actual answer. The "average responses" are just way off though. :D
Some of the ones I got spectacularly wrong:
44% of Poles aged 25-34 live with their parents - what the fuck. I was out of my parents' home when I was 23 and I am a bit of a momma boy!
Also:
Overall, people in South Korea, Ireland and Poland are the best informed among the countries where all the survey's questions were asked. Respondents in Brazil, India and Mexico occupy the bottom three places of the rankings with the biggest gap between the perception of issues and the actual numbers.
:yeah:
Quote from: dps on December 02, 2015, 04:09:05 PM
I was ranked #2. I was way off on the percentage of 25-34 year olds living with their parents, but fairly close on most of the rest, and spot on on a few.
I was ranked #1. :D
I gave my mom the quiz, and she ended up ranked #21, but that was mostly because she was spectacularly and bizarrely wrong on 3 questions--percentage foreign-born (for some reason, she said 68% wtf?), wealthiest 1% (she guessed only 5%, which is just weird), and percentage of people who live in rural areas (she guessed 70%, which would have been low even around 1850). Other than that, she was mostly closer to right than the US average, and pretty much nailed several (including the one about internet access, which surprised me--I figured she'd be way off on that one).
Quote from: Martinus on December 02, 2015, 04:15:32 PM
Some of the ones I got spectacularly wrong:
44% of Poles aged 25-34 live with their parents - what the fuck. I was out of my parents' home when I was 23 and I am a bit of a momma boy!
Economic reasons I suspect, not because they cannot leave the warm parental embrace.
Quote from: Valmy on December 02, 2015, 04:32:22 PM
Quote from: Martinus on December 02, 2015, 04:15:32 PM
Some of the ones I got spectacularly wrong:
44% of Poles aged 25-34 live with their parents - what the fuck. I was out of my parents' home when I was 23 and I am a bit of a momma boy!
Economic reasons I suspect, not because they cannot leave the warm parental embrace.
Coming to think of it, could be also the case of misreporting. Poland still has a "residence registration" regime (a relict of communist era). When you rent, many landlords refuse to let tenants register their residence at the flat they are renting, because this strengthens the tenants' protection (plus a lot of people rent out without paying taxes or reporting that otherwise). This means a lot of people who rent are still registered as resident with their parents.
Quote from: Valmy on December 02, 2015, 10:23:00 AM
I ranked 1. Huh I thought I was pretty off on everything.
I was way under on obesity because I guess I missed 'overweight'. Hell I am surprised it is not 90%.
I missed that same thing for that exact reason also. Got rank 1.
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Most countries surveyed overestimate the proportion of wealth owned by the 1%.
Interestingly, however, when asked how much wealth should the richest in society hold, the responses are closer to the actual levels.
:lol:
Seems you can be off by a mile and still get #1.