my guest today is bobby duffy, social scientists, opinion pollster, and managing director of the ipsos moriocial research institute. how can we, the people, make informed decisions if we're not properly informed 7 bobby duffy, welcome to hardtalk. great to be here. you and your company have spent many years surveying attitudes and opinions of people around the world, i think at least a0 countries, and your conclusion is mind—blowingly depressing. it seemed to have concluded that much of what we think we know is wrong. why is that? so the study is based on over 100,000 interviews we have done over the past ten years asking people about social realities. so everything from immigration rates to crime rates, how they are changing, pregnancy rates among teenagers, the proportion of the population that are muslim, and then very mundane facts like how old your population is, how many people are aged 65 plus, and what we find across countries, all sorts of different situations, people have a very wrong view of those realities, in all sorts of different ways. the underlying themes that seem to expla