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Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Measuring misconceptions

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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5 comments:

  1. Gilmoure deTrimar2 December 2015 at 17:52

    Heh, I was usually wrong but mostly on other side of how US guessed.

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  2. Robert Minchin2 December 2015 at 18:02

    Interesting that the Guardian is now saying only 25% of the UK population identifies as non-religious, when it was saying 53% back in April...
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/12/uk-one-of-worlds-least-religious-countries-survey-finds

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  3. Gilmoure deTrimar2 December 2015 at 18:10

    Non-relegious or non-affiliated? I'm not sure of the distinction as used in the quiz.

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  4. Ed Johnson2 December 2015 at 22:00

    Interesting - i got a lot more way wrong than I expected.

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  5. Isaac Kuo2 December 2015 at 22:42

    I 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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