What a quiz tells us about US news habits (BBC)
A Pew Research Center survey of 1,002 adults measured Americans' knowledge of key facts in the news - you can test yourself on the same 12 questions Pew asked the US public in this quiz.
Several questions were answered correctly by less than half the respondents, some by less than 30%.
While it's difficult to compare like with like, you might not necessarily expect citizens of other nations to answer equivalent questions correctly, either. But the study does offer an insight into how knowledge is disseminated.
For instance, the survey suggested that 73% could correctly identify the federal minimum wage as $7.25 (£4.49).
By contrast, says Carroll Doherty, director of political research at Pew, "When it comes to more detailed knowledge of foreign policy - when there's a question about Shias and Sunnis, for instance - it's something that doesn't get a lot of coverage in the American news media."
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29465337
spin
(17,493 posts)I will guess that most posters here will also score high.
valerief
(53,235 posts)the U.S. spends the most on.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)polls utterly useless, other than cannon fodder to fill the never ending cable news cycle.
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)Missed the one about poverty.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Pretty sure I missed no more than one or two, though.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)You scored better than 92% of the public, below 4% and the same as 4%.
JI7
(89,252 posts)Maybe we shouldn't be surprised someone sick and arrived just from Liberia didn't set off red flags for some
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Random chance would be 25%. Only 24% got the Fed Reserve chair question right, too.