Wednesday 16 April 2014

Where Americans think the Ukraine is :s

What? Are some silly nutters in the US still going on about invading the Ukraine? 

An interesting little study done about this. People were asked whether they thought the US should invade the Ukraine, and also to locate it on a map. This is where those people thought the Ukraine was, and guess what. Those furthest away from getting the Ukraine's location right where also the people who most wanted to invade (click to enlarge):

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. more
Um, WTF are two dots doing in the Australian desert? And being so far away, do they want to invade outback Australia because they think it's the Ukraine? 

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