GfK/Roper/National Geographic Follow-Up Survey 2006

[Gabu]

I just took the test.  The following are some highlights regarding how much I despair about the results:

- 29% think that the population of the US is over a billion.  5% think it's under 50 million.

- 3% of people have no idea that New York is in a different time zone than California.

- 30% of people think that the US-Mexico border is the most heavily fortified in the world.

- 4% of people think that there are more Americans than Chinese.

- 5% of people think that Colombia is in North America (uh... where the heck would it be?).

[Gabu]

The only one I didn't know was where CSI was originally set. (Why should I know that!?) I guessed Chicago, which was incidentally the "most incorrect" answer (farthest away).

I guessed Los Angeles.  I almost got it half right (the "Las" in "Las Vegas").

I got that and the immigration question wrong, along with one other that I can't remember.  I think I accidentally got the time zone question backwards due to not thinking about it for long enough (adding three hours instead of subtracting three).