You can make judgements on uncertain data. It is a reasonable thing to do. It just happens that, given the number of people who muck up data that should be fami

You can make judgements on uncertain data. It is a reasonable thing to do. It just happens that, given the number of people who muck up data that should be familiar to them, I say there is a lot of misplaced confidence in how well people understand other countries - confidence that often grows because the average person has very limited material to cross-reference with because they can't read a lot of publicly available stuff.