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ramus
12th December 2018, 20:44
This article speak well for disinformation/ lack of information that's being serve up as the whole truth. Surprised this got publish, it proves what many here know, propaganda is the media, and it has an agenda, and is fear generated.
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We are often wrong about crime, sex, climate change and the economy, survey finds

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2018 | Updated 8:48 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2018

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/11/misperceptions-survey-people-often-wrong-crime-sex-climate-change-economy/2263296002/

We are often wrong about crime, sex, climate change and the economy, survey finds

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2018 | Updated 8:48 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2018


Crime, violence, sex, climate change, the economy – we're getting what we think we know about the world all wrong, according to a recent survey about global misperceptions.

The 2018 Perils of Misperception study published this month by Paris-headquartered Ipsos, a consultancy and market research firm, highlights various ways in which people across 37 countries are misinformed about key issues and features about their country.

Among the survey's findings: People in every country surveyed significantly underestimate levels of sexual harassment. The largest gaps between perception and reality on this topic are in Denmark, the Netherlands, France and the United States.

For example, when respondents were asked to estimate how many out of every 100 women will say they have experienced a form of sexual harassment since the age of 15, in Denmark the average guess was 36. The actual figure is 80. In the United States, the average guess was 51. The actual number was 81, a percentage difference of a third.
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In every country surveyed, men guessed lower than women for the level of sexual harassment women have experienced. Swedish men were the most wrong about that, followed by men in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Belgium.

The majority of countries hugely overestimate levels of immigration. The average guess across 37 countries is that 28 percent are immigrants when the actual figure is less than half that at 12 percent. In the U.S., people guess that 29 out of 100 people were immigrants (defined as not born in the U.S.). The actual number was 15.

petra
13th December 2018, 16:35
I don't pay attention to the stuff about harassment because I feel it's subjective and what one person considers harassment, another may not. Also false reports of harassment can happen for all kinds of reasons, for example if I wanted to get someone who is on probation thrown back in jail, all I'd have to do is accuse them of harassment (please no one get any ideas lol)

The misperception of the number of immigrants is much more indicative of the problem as a whole. And to prove my point even further, my own guess would have been much higher!

Propaganda is something we just cannot get away from. It can be good, or it can be bad.

Propaganda definition from Merriam Webster:
2) the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
3) ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause