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How the heck someone put Iran in South America? Just a little exposure to everyday media should give you enough to rule out that completely. That's such a basic
by whoisjuan 7y ago
How the heck someone put Iran in South America? Just a little exposure to everyday media should give you enough to rule out that completely. That's such a basic geography understanding.
This completely blows my mind.
- koboll 7y agoWith any public opinion survey there's going to be a certain amount of "noise" results. You can't _force_ people to give serious answers. But if your methodology is sound (Morning Consult's certainly is) then they will tend to cancel each other out.
- greeneggs 7y agoYou can't force people to give serious answers, but you can incentivize them to do so. My guess is that the results would be dramatically better if the respondents were paid for correct answers.
- koboll 7y agoThat would incentivize respondents to cheat and look it up. I think you'd find that would make the results much worse.
- damq 7y agoI find the whole survey incredibly suspicious. There's no way there were actually multiple people who thought Iran was an ocean.
- eithed 7y agoI guess the same way somebody would put Iran in the middle of the ocean
- thoughtleader31 7y agoGiven that it's a completely nonsense answer among the outliers, I wouldn't be as concerned as to with the people that put it in the Balkans or confuse it with Turkey.
- luizfzs 7y agoHow the heck someone put Iran in the US?
- heavymark 7y agoFar more alarming is that so many US voted marked The United States as Iran.
- m00x 7y agoI'm pretty sure this was just an internet survey that people didn't answer seriously. About 1% of the clicks are in the water and a lot of answers are in North America. I have trouble believing anyone is that ignorant.
- pochamago 7y agoLizardman's constant https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...