that's an odd little test, and not nearly rigorous enough to be all that telling, IMO. while it is true that I am an outlier in terms of geographic knowledge, except for the culturally biased question about CSI (which I got wrong, but in which I was apparently in good compnay) all of the rest were pretty trivial. some of the graphs showing the responses of 18-24 year old americans were quite telling though, e.g. re: the most heavily fortified border, re: the largest exporter of goods and services in $ terms, and re: which country has a majority muslim population. the spread of answers regarding the (2006) population of the US was just pitiful.
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that's an odd little test, and not nearly rigorous enough to be all that telling, IMO. while it is true that I am an outlier in terms of geographic knowledge, except for the culturally biased question about CSI (which I got wrong, but in which I was apparently in good compnay) all of the rest were pretty trivial. some of the graphs showing the responses of 18-24 year old americans were quite telling though, e.g. re: the most heavily fortified border, re: the largest exporter of goods and services in $ terms, and re: which country has a majority muslim population. the spread of answers regarding the (2006) population of the US was just pitiful.
very interesting. thanks for the link.