Dear makers of this map

[james_davis_nicoll]

visited 8 states (61.5%)
Create your own visited map of Canada

A: Canada has provinces, not states.

B: New Brunswick is not spelled "New Brinswick".

C: James Bay is not its own territory/province.

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I always feel triumphant when someone not from the US displays a horrible knowledge of geography (the gentleman who wrote this is from the Netherlands) because the stereotype that only people from the US suck at geography is so profound. (And untrue--almost everyone sucks at geography, and in fact people from Mexico suck even worse at it than we USericans do.)

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Cite for the above. Neither Canada nor the UK fared too well on this test.

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

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.