Without going into too much detail, my job involves the online moderation of a community of customers, and part of those duties include putting together a list of 20 true/false quiz questions every week.

As tempting as it would be to go totally mask-off, I need to maintain plausibly deniability, but would like to be just based enough to pique curiosity. If anyone can suggest some strange-but-true facts or wild-assumed-but-false beliefs of a brain-blowing nature, all easily citable, it would make my job a lot more satisfying. Information related to China/Asia preferred.

Here's the kind of thing I have in mind:

Chinse law prohibits workplace collective action - FALSE Half of all oceanborne plastic is from discarded commercial fishing nets - TRUE Polls have found as many as 95.% of Chinese are "satisfied" with their national government - TRUE Air pollution levels in Beijing have increased by 30% since 2014 - FALSE

Please share your ideas. Thanks.

  • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "Half of all oceanborne plastic is from discarded commercial fishing nets - TRUE"

    This is not true. At least get your facts right first. 10% of all ocean plastic is from fishing gear.

    https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/1394/files/original/ADVOCACY_REPORT_singles.pdf?1603134868

    If you're citing from Seaspiracy, it's a fun doc but they twist a lot of local statistics to apply globally.