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Ignorance is Not Always a Bliss: A List of The Most Ignorant Countries

Sanaa Mehra
Sanaa Mehra December 7, 2015
Updated 2021/04/30 at 10:51 PM
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A recent survey was conducted by Ipsos MORI (which is the second-largest market research organization in the United Kingdom) to find out how knowledgeable people are about their surroundings. As a result of this survey, which is called Perils of Perception, the world’s most ignorant countries have been revealed.

This title goes to Mexico, with India and Brazil taking up the second and third positions.

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This survey was conducted to test how aware people are of inequality, immigration, and obesity. The citizens of 33 countries filled out the survey, and the demographics of each of the countries were taken into consideration by the makers of this survey.

A few patterns were observed based on the region, such as the Latin American countries being more inaccurate. In contrast, the European countries tended to be more accurate.

The top 10 were rounded off by Peru, New Zealand, Colombia, Belgium, South Africa, Argentina, and Italy, taking the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth positions.

New Zealand, which took the fifth position in the list, was the most inaccurately developed country.

The survey showed how people were unaware of immigrants, obesity, average age, and wealth.ignorant countries

A quarter of people in the country was thought to be immigrants when the reality is that less than one in ten people are immigrants. The people in Argentina were the most far from the truth. They believed that 30 percent of their population were immigrants when it is only 5 percent in reality.

People also significantly underestimated obesity. The people who were surveyed, on average, thought that merely 40 percent of their country was overweight. In fact, the reality is that more than 54 percent of the population was obese.

Despite obesity being a majorly discussed topic in Great Britain, the people greatly misestimated the problem. When they were questioned about how many people over the age of 20 were classified as obese, they believed the numbers to be 44 percent when it is a startling 62 percent.motu

The people in Saudi Arabia thought that over a quarter of people in their country were obese when the reality is that 70 percent of the country is overweight.

Since the advancement in technology has taken place, the average age for countries has risen. The general average is 50 years. However, the Brazilians got this statistic very wrong. They believed that the average age in their country was 56 years while, in reality, the average age is only 31.

Globally, the people thought that the richest 1 percent of their country owned half of the wealth when they own only a third of the country’s wealth. The British thought that 56 percent owned the wealth of their country when only 23 percent owned the wealth.paisa

Bobby Duff, who is the managing director of Ipsos MORI, said that:

“Each population gets a lot wrong. We are often most incorrect on factors widely discussed in the media or highlighted as challenges facing societies, such as the proportion of young adults still living at home, immigration, and wealth inequality. We know from previous studies that this is partly because we over-estimate what we worry about – as well as worrying about the issues we think are widespread.”

Now that we Indians are informed about how misinformed we really are, I think it’s time to start getting informed about the other issues in our country. Let’s get rid of all the ignorance.

“Not to know is bad, Not to wish to know is worse”

           -African proverb

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Sanaa Mehra December 7, 2015
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