Well worth taking the quiz before you read the article. Via Michael J. Coffey.
Originally shared by Betsy McCall
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2015/dec/02/what-americans-get-wrong-survey-reveals-biggest-misconceptions
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Heh, I was usually wrong but mostly on other side of how US guessed.
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Non-relegious or non-affiliated? I'm not sure of the distinction as used in the quiz.
ReplyDeleteInteresting - i got a lot more way wrong than I expected.
ReplyDeleteI tried out the test (for USA, my home country). Honestly, my answers were mainly wild guesses because I have no idea about those sorts of statistics. Unsurprisingly, most of my answers were way off.
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