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I got all 20, although I admit to guessing on the location of CSI. And the immigration question was tricky.
There’s also a question about English as a “primary language.” The Nat Geo answer is correct, but a more interesting question would be “primary or secondary.”
[…] The Commissar over at The Politburo Diktat points me to the following National Geographic Survey/Quiz. […]
Hmm. 3% thought Sri Lanka was in Antarctica and 3% thought the Amazonian Rain Forest was in Antarctica. Jeez.
And 2% thought you wear lightweight clothing at the Arctic circle. I missed the immigration question, guess 22%, not 33%. And I missed CSI, as I have never watched the show.
The CSI question wasn’t really about geography, but about popular culture. I never watched CSI, how am I supposed to know where it’s set?
I think the CSI question was there to show that people are more knowledgable of pop culture than of basic geography.
I got everything right but the immigration question.
I suspect some of the most obnoxious stuff (Amazon on Antarctica) is a function, at least in part, of people putting down joke answers.
At least I hope that’s the case.
Beck,
Any poll has a few percent of nonsense answers; like you say, they dont mean much.
I found it interesting that while over 80% of people knew that China’s population was at least double that of the U.S. (combining the incorrect ‘about double’ answer and the correct ‘over four times’ answer), nearly 80% guessed that English was a more common primary language than Mandarin. Odd …
Scott,
I think that was a poor question. Isn’t it more relevant that English is widely used, in Europe, India, Singapore, etc. as a global lingua fraca, or “everybody’s second language” than the fact China has a huge population?
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