Well it clearly didn't work
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I can't decide which is worse: those in the USA or those in the ocean
Could be a small island!
It would be really funny if they asked latitude and longitude instead of asking them to point on a map. Suddenly the data becomes very impressive.
turns out 23% of americans are geography gods
I'm not sure either...
Why would they be guessing Arkansas?
American here. Have you been to Arkansas?
I know it's a rhetorical question, but briefly. I ate a burrito in Fort Smith, stayed at a crappy motel by Fayetteville one time in the shadow of Jesus billboards, and drove through Little Rock. It was very "natural".
How are the burritos in Arkansas?
It was a very average burrito in a sit-down Mexican restaurant, one of those places that has a nice building and atmosphere but seems to cater to a midwestern palate. I think it was La Huerta Grill. Probably would have been better any state to the Southwest of there. Looking at the map now, if I was there again, I'd go to a pupusa place... those are always super good.
Because both have an N at the end of the second syllable of their name (I have no idea)
Wishful thinking
These types of tests are invalid because people are going to troll.
I would like to know the context of this survey. Who in the world gets asked where is a country and points to the middle of the sea
probably doing it because they think it's funny or something like that
To be fair, I bet there is a town named Iran in the US. There’s a Cuba, Bolivia, Lebanon, and others.
Okay, I just looked it up and no, but you can see where I coming from - lots of places named after foreign countries/cities. It probably is stupidity, but with included confusion.
Yeah, I see what you mean but the majority is still most likely stupidity (though there is probably at least one because of that)
I wonder if it asked them to point out “the country of Iran.”
Of course people also confuse cities and states. Like on the game shows, people will say things like Los Angeles when they mean California, and vice versa.
More like I-ran away from history class. Am I right guys?
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A large chunk of them, well over half, had the general part of the world right. Honestly better than I expected.
Yeah, I'd say ~50% are close enough to be considered basically correct.
Rip Italy though.
It skews pretty far into Europe though, which surprised me.
It does, yes. A lot of them are centered around the Persian gulf, so there seems to be a strong "it's around here somewhere" approach.
TIL there's a disturbing amount of USians who think Iran is actually Atlantis.
Well, has Iran been at war with the US at any point in time? No. Checkmate.
Actually 23% is a pretty good stat?
Do you really think that many people Iranians are mermaids?
Jokes aside, there is no better way to learn geography than studying war. Shit just starts sticking in your brain.
Americans you are not alone
That's why Paradox games are best games for geography!
A game called terra invicta (HOI4 mixed with xcom) has really been helping my modern geography of late
God clearly failed, then. George W. Bush kept bombing places that he couldn't pronounce.
I wanted to be mad, but I thought it over and decided op had a point.
Nice try, Kane
Ahhh yes, Iran Alberta, Canada.
Go for the food, stay for the bread festivals. It's when we sing the score from Fiddler on the roof and sacrifice a bear in the name of our sponsors, Phil's pork 'n beans.
Good Ol' Iran, Alberta. Fuckin' love that place. Go there, you tell Jimmy, Bill from Ottawa says hello!
Not the British, French, or Dutch?
Of course not. America is the only nation on earth capable of perpetrating evil, ghod.
That's enough Internet for today, I think
/#notallamericans