11% of Americans can't find the USA on a map

[rah]

Originally posted by tinyp3nis
I allways found polls (especially the ones about popularity before elections) so accurate that they make the counting of the votes boring to watch because you already know the results...

In the US, people are starting to have a problem with these and as a result are lying and acting non committed. This got so out of hand with poll exit interviews, that if you remember, they were hardly used this election. (not our specialty, so it didn't cost us much money) And the networks are now suspicious of them and don't want to put their reputation on the line.

In Illinois, the election for Gov. and Att. Gen. were both reported to be close, right up to the day of the election, but both ended up reasonable landslides. More people are unwilling to tell the truth to pollsters. (not good for our business, but fortunately we concentrate more on consumer goods and customer satisfaction)

RAH

edited...
And just for clarification. We've really have been talking about completed surveys, not sample. We would guess the response rate to figure out how much sample we would need. (i.e. If we had experienced a 10 % completion rate, or just guessed, we would pull 50000 sample to get 5000 completes.)
Most random phone surveys will not even perform to this level.

[Dauphin]

Jerusalem. If I'm using my mental map properly. Either that or the Black see is messed up.

[orange]

RAH - I believe the polling in a New Jersey town for Mayor was the same way...they gauged it to be a landslide for one guy, and it turned out that people stopped voting...and their results were off the mark, and the other candidate (a virtual unknown) won by 32 or so votes. A recount was of course called for

[orange]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Jerusalem. If I'm using my mental map properly. Either that or the Black see is messed up.

correct, but I was too fast for you, and caught your spelling error

[Provost Harrison]

Well I was also very disappointed by the performance of my own country, who did worse than the US in many of those polls. There are a lot of stupid people all over, luckily not many of our stupid people tend to have the money to get on the internet Except Bods

[Capt Dizle]

Americans are stable rational people going about the business of enjoying the prosperity that the American political/economic system provides. Therefore, why should they care where third world countries are?

Folks from outside the US, in less fortunate circumstances, are envious of Americans. They are so obsessed they know so much about us.

[XarXo]

20 of 20, this poll is truly difficult? I can't believe it! (no joking)

A TRULY difficult geographical question is: In which continent is Kerguelen? (as accepted by global standards)

[Seneca]

I wonder how large the number of Christians would be if you discounted nominal Christians? The CIA factbook puts the number of Christians in Britain as 40 million...

[Provost Harrison]

Well I got all those ones from this thread wrong I thought Iceland was further east, that Barcelona was on the Greenwich Meridian and underestimated the bulge in the western seaboard

[Maniac]

France.

[Maniac]

What's the capital of Malawi?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by XarXo
20 of 20, this poll is truly difficult? I can't believe it! (no joking)

A TRULY difficult geographical question is: In which continent is Kerguelen? (as accepted by global standards)

It's in the South Indian, so would it count as Antarctica?

[Maniac]

I already answered three posts above.

Edit: It's correct, no?

Edit2: Woops! Continent, not country.

[Method]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Considering how many missed the "Which city is the most West" question, that shouldn't be a surprise.

it seems only 30% of mexicans know where west is

[flash9286]

i missed two, i always thought there were more Buddisht than Chiristians