Sure, Johnny can't read a map (or a book), but he can sure shoot a gun (and kill middle easterners for oil profits)
Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can
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#102Not at all surprising. Sad, but not surprising. How many voters know who the Secretary of State is? How many voters know who their local congress critter is? I guarantee the numbers are similarly dismal.
It's pretty typical for the kind of answers you get from polling people walking around the mall in the middle of a weekday.
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#103Why is this flagged?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
With 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.
You 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.
That would incentivize respondents to cheat and look it up. I think you'd find that would make the results much worse.