The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want ...
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The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want ...
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#2How did they ask people to locate Ukraine? Some of these points look like somebody accidentally clicked on a random spot of a map. For example, the dot below New Zealand is in the middle of the ocean (approx. -55.000000,176.000000). Some even located it within the US (Florida seems to be a popular guess). Have they found really misinformed people or is this noise in the data?
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#3Although I find it interesting, what's the point of the article other than "look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography"?
And what do I gain from it?
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#4Note that “the dots are colored based on how far removed they are from the actual country, with the most accurate responses in red and the least accurate ones in blue.” Given that the dots are not colored by a preference for intervention, but simply by location on the map, I feel that the visualization is misleading.
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#5Although I find it interesting, what's the point of the article other than "look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography"? And what do I gain from it?
> what's the point of the article?
I took it as look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography AND how much they want to intervene in something they know nothing about.
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#6Although I find it interesting, what's the point of the article other than "look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography"? And what do I gain from it?
"Smart people are anti-war"
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#7Although I find it interesting, what's the point of the article other than "look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography"? And what do I gain from it?
People that take surveys seriously take all of the questions seriously
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#8I see lots of numbers in there, but none relating to a desire for military action, save for the fact they're "95% confident" that people who don't know where Ukraine is are more likely to support military action. How much more likely are they?
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#9I don't dispute the conclusion of this study, but this might be a great example of when the choice of map projection used has a significant consequences.
For example, would Greenland have been chosen so many times if a projection were used that didn't make it look so huge?
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#10Although I find it interesting, what's the point of the article other than "look how most Americans are ignorant about world geography"? And what do I gain from it?
What I always find interesting about "look at how ignorant Americans are" type articles is that they never bother to compare against any other nationality and see if the ignorance is in any way abnormal in a broader context.
Is a "look at how ignorant non-Europeans are about world geography?" going to have a different result? (And I would be quite curious to know how many, say, British or Spaniards can accurately place Ukraine on a map. I have a sneaking suspicion that the number is surprisingly low).
This coming from a non-American, by the way.