Hans Rosling had a talk about this topic[1] 6 years ago, albeit less about "mean" and more about how "bad" the world was, and more importantly, how bad people t

Hans Rosling had a talk about this topic[1] 6 years ago, albeit less about "mean" and more about how "bad" the world was, and more importantly, how bad people thought the world was compared to how it actually is. Not too surprisingly, even media and journalists scored worse than random guessing. So it's hard to point fingers to the viewer getting wrong impression of the world when the information senders themselves can't measure it (or send it) correctly [1] https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg https://youtu.be/Sm5xF-UYgdg