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Monday, April 07, 2014

Stupid People Want to Start a War with Russia

I'm always rather cynical about poll results, but this one was pretty funny: the less people know about where Ukraine is, the more they want to start a war with Russia.
On March 28-31, 2014, we asked a national sample of 2,066 Americans (fielded via Survey Sampling International Inc. (SSI), what action they wanted the U.S. to take in Ukraine, but with a twist: In addition to measuring standard demographic characteristics and general foreign policy attitudes, we also asked our survey respondents to locate Ukraine on a map as part of a larger, ongoing project to study foreign policy knowledge. We wanted to see where Americans think Ukraine is and to learn if this knowledge (or lack thereof) is related to their foreign policy views. We found that only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map, and that this lack of knowledge is related to preferences: The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force.
I wonder how it correlates with how much Fox News they watch?

2 comments:

Juris Imprudent said...

but self-identified independents (29 percent correct) outperformed both Democrats (14 percent correct) and Republicans (15 percent correct)

Who knew that so many Dems are Fox News viewers.

GuardDuck said...

Hahahahhahhhahhahhahahah!!