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TEST QUESTION: WHERE PEOPLE LIVE

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Q2.1

Where do people live? There are 7 billion people in the world today. Of the maps below, which one do you think shows best where they live in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia?

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TEST QUESTION: WHERE PEOPLE LIVE

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Where do people live? CORRECT ANSWER

The map with four billion in Asia is clearly the one closest to reality. In this question we have rounded the numbers to simplify the question, but the precise UN estimates are: The Americas: 0.98 Billion , Europe: 0.84 Billion, Africa: 1.1 Billion & Asia 4.3 Billion.

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A

B B

C Source: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/pa nel_indicators.htm www.gapminder.org/teach

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TEST QUESTION: WHERE PEOPLE LIVE

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Large Ignorance Results from our public knowledge surveys Most people we have asked don’t know that the majority of the world population lives in Asia. Four out of seven billion people. Gapminder asked this question in public knowledge surveys to representative samples of the adult population in the following countries.

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US

Sweden

Norway

36%

22%

26%

Remember: Chimpanzees pick the correct answer 33% of the time, just by random!

33%

The public scored worse than random!

B

29%

28%

26%

33%

C

35%

49%

48%

33%

Sources for survey results : SWE & NOR: http://www.gapminder.org/GapminderMedia/wp-uploads/Novus-Gapminder-Ignorance-Survey-SWE-NO-nov_dec_20131.pd, US: http://www.novus.se/media/29390/novus-gapminder_ignorance_survey_us_nov_2013.pdf www.gapminder.org/teach

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