How Americans fare on the ignorance index

[lunasun]

Italians and Americans score bottom


http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2014/10/30/how-americans-fare-on-the-index-of-ignorance/

Guess how many U.S. girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Go ahead, guess. If you calculated the number at 3 percent you’re correct;
if you guessed 24 percent, you’re American.

The idea that nearly a quarter of high school teens are walking around pregnant at any given time is one of a number of topics about which Americans are woefully misinformed, according to Ipsos MORI polling results released Wednesday.
In a comparison of 14 industrialized countries, the United States trailed only Italy in the pollsters’ index of ignorance about the realities of modern life.

As this Reuters graphic shows, people in the U.S. significantly miss the mark on the proportion of the population that is comprised of immigrants, guessing 32 percent against the true number of 13 percent.

Americans also overestimate the number of Muslims in the population, 15 percent versus only 1 percent in reality, and underestimate the number of Christians, 56 percent to 78 percent.

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1. 11

[lunasun]

2. 13th out of 14 Italy is at the bottom of 14 nations

[Warren Stupidity]

3. See spinal tap. For a given ignorance index, americans need a number

that is one higher than whatever the highest number on the index is.

[lunasun]

5. i thought they were suppose to be British ? but yes I get it now !

[Fred Sanders]

4. Americans guessing 15% Muslims in America means they overestimate Muslims or do not understand %?

And on Fox News every second person is Muslim....so what reality are we polling?

[lunasun]

6. 100% pro terrorist too no doubt if Fox fans polled but this was not just Fox fans

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10. The same Morans where 30% believe they're part of the 1%.

[Doctor_J]

7. Fox Nation is happy, and stupid

[JEB]

8. What % believe we are exceptional?

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13. Durr, uh, I dunno what that symbol means.

Must be some kinda Chinese math thingy you put in there to confuse people.

It kinda looks like a coupla crazy eyes with a nose in the middle.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Americans also overestimate the number of Republicans and underestimate the number of Liberals.

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11. Going the way

America is going the way of the Roman Empire.

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12. Americans can actually count?

(Total: 120% of poll respondents)