{"id":15950,"date":"2014-10-31T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15950"},"modified":"2014-10-31T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:04:40","slug":"how-well-do-people-know-the-basic-facts-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15950","title":{"rendered":"How well do people know the basic facts on immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by Ipsos MORI has checked public understanding of the numbers behind some key news stories in 14 countries. Let&#8217;s just look at two issues in two countries.<\/p>\n<p>When asked: <strong>out of 100 people, how many do you think are immigrants in this country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the UK, the average guess was 24%, but the reality is only 13%<\/li>\n<li>In the USA,\u00a0the average guess was 32%, but the reality is again 13%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When asked: <strong>out of 100 people, how many do you think are Muslim in this country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the UK, the average guess was 21%, but the reality is a mere 5%<\/li>\n<li>In the USA, the average guess was 15%, but the reality is a minuscule 1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find more data on more issues in more countries in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/2014\/oct\/29\/todays-key-fact-you-are-probably-wrong-about-almost-everything\">this piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Duffy, managing director of the Ipsos MORI social research institute, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The real peril of these misperceptions is how politicians and policymakers react. Do they try to challenge people and correct their view of reality or do they take them as a signal of concern, the result of a more emotional reaction and design policy around them?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the ideal is to do a bit of both \u2013 politicians shouldn\u2019t misread these misperceptions as people simply needing to be re-educated and then their views will change \u2013 but they also need to avoid policy responses that just reinforce unfounded fears.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey by Ipsos MORI has checked public understanding of the numbers behind some key news stories in 14 countries. Let&#8217;s just look at two issues in two countries. When asked: out of 100 people, how many do you think are immigrants in this country? In the UK, the average guess was 24%, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs","category-social-policy","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15950\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}