people are unemployed or looking
for work, americans guessed 32%.
the u.s. unemployment rate is
closer to 6%.
we could only find one country
on the planet, macedonia, which
has had 30% unemployment in
recent years.
every country overestimated its
unemployment level.
what about immigration level?
there, too, the participants of
every country imagined that they
are being overwhelmed by
foreigners.
italians think 30% of their
population is comprised of
foreigners when it's really
closer to 7%.
americans think it's 32%.
the actual number in america is
more like 13%.
now, how many people did
respondents think identified as
muslim in their countries?
here the french embellished the
most reporting that 31% of the
population was probably muslim
instead of actual 8%.
americans think it's 15%.
it is really just 1%.