That's honestly better than most of these, like the Iraq survey they did was just completely random dots uniformity blanketing the world.
It's probably becuase the Crimea peninsula is actually a distinctive feature you can point to. Although any dots on Crimea should be labeled incorrect becuase that shit is Russian now bitch.
I do wonder how many of the people doing the survey are actually serious though, because with the Iraq thing I think the vast majority of people would know that it's in the Middle East somewhere and so pointing anywhere else just seems like a joke. And for this, the vast majority of people would know it's in eastern Europe somewhere and so anybody pointing at Germany or further west must also be joking. It's at least 34% of them taking it seriously and it looks like a clear majority put a dot in eastern Europe which IMO is "Not amazing but at least you've got the gist of things as a person who grew up in an underfunded and understaffed education system in a country that believes it's the greatest and only world power and protagonist" but if you're pointing at fucking France then you can't be serious.
It's not as if maps like this really mean anything anyway, it's not as if knowing a country's precise location would give your opinion that you want the US to invade it any more credence, and conversely, if you didn't know a country's precise location, that doesn't mean that your opinion that you want the US to invade it can suddenly be discarded and you will take the L and change your worldview as you've been epically owned by a much smarter person than yourself, sir. On the other hand, if somebody didn't want to invade a country but couldn't point it out on a map then we wouldn't be like "Well, unfortunately, your argument has been weakened by the X, Y, and Z logical fallacies so maybe we should invade it?", and if somebody - hell, even every American - didn't want to invade a country but could point it out on a map then it's not as if that would change literally anything about the US's foreign policy.
I guess it's kinda interesting data but it's not much more than that. It's pretty orthogonal overall, both to questions of invasion or "lethal aid", and your knowledge of the world generally. You can be a perfectly decent person with perfectly decent opinions on domestic and foreign issues and not know what the flag of Austria looks like or what the capital of Morocco is or what Laos looks like. At least, I hopefully have good opinions on those issues and I don't know the answers to those questions without a google search.
That's honestly better than most of these, like the Iraq survey they did was just completely random dots uniformity blanketing the world.
It's probably becuase the Crimea peninsula is actually a distinctive feature you can point to. Although any dots on Crimea should be labeled incorrect becuase that shit is Russian now bitch.
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The Ukraine is in europe
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I do wonder how many of the people doing the survey are actually serious though, because with the Iraq thing I think the vast majority of people would know that it's in the Middle East somewhere and so pointing anywhere else just seems like a joke. And for this, the vast majority of people would know it's in eastern Europe somewhere and so anybody pointing at Germany or further west must also be joking. It's at least 34% of them taking it seriously and it looks like a clear majority put a dot in eastern Europe which IMO is "Not amazing but at least you've got the gist of things as a person who grew up in an underfunded and understaffed education system in a country that believes it's the greatest and only world power and protagonist" but if you're pointing at fucking France then you can't be serious.
It's not as if maps like this really mean anything anyway, it's not as if knowing a country's precise location would give your opinion that you want the US to invade it any more credence, and conversely, if you didn't know a country's precise location, that doesn't mean that your opinion that you want the US to invade it can suddenly be discarded and you will take the L and change your worldview as you've been epically owned by a much smarter person than yourself, sir. On the other hand, if somebody didn't want to invade a country but couldn't point it out on a map then we wouldn't be like "Well, unfortunately, your argument has been weakened by the X, Y, and Z logical fallacies so maybe we should invade it?", and if somebody - hell, even every American - didn't want to invade a country but could point it out on a map then it's not as if that would change literally anything about the US's foreign policy.
I guess it's kinda interesting data but it's not much more than that. It's pretty orthogonal overall, both to questions of invasion or "lethal aid", and your knowledge of the world generally. You can be a perfectly decent person with perfectly decent opinions on domestic and foreign issues and not know what the flag of Austria looks like or what the capital of Morocco is or what Laos looks like. At least, I hopefully have good opinions on those issues and I don't know the answers to those questions without a google search.
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Always has been Russian.
Cri-me-a river :kelly: