We are wrong about nearly everything, apparently. Are you?

[edam]

most of the 'facts' that people believe about current affairs are wrong, apparently. Entertaining test from the Guardian's data blog.

[Portofino]

I got 9 out of 10 right! I am never wrong

[Nagoo]

7 out of ten 'slightly divorced from reality'. That'll do pig. I don't want to know everything. I get queasy when I think about current affairs.

So only 3% of people are single parents. I think I was tricked by that question, as it doesn't say what proportion of parents are single, IYSWIM.

I underestimated the number of people with twitter and that vote.

[BOF]

6 out of 10. I got the important stuff right though

[BOF]

I got those wrong too, Artex. And I overestimated single parents by ten per cent.

[HomeHelpMeGawd]

Given it's in the Graun, it's quite easy to game and get the right answer... "pick the answer most easily portrayed as confounding a Daily Mail prejudice". I got 8 out of 10 with this method.

[lollylaughs]

Yes I am all the time - I have a teenager

[LauraShigihara]

6 out of 10. I thought that single parent question was tricky - I didn't understand what they were asking. Parent completely alone, parent with a new partner?

I overestimated how many children live in poverty and how many voted in the election, because the Guardian keeps telling me that poverty numbers are always underestimated and that not many people bother to vote. So I picked numbers with that in mind and was wildly out.

[ThingummyBob]

I scored "Not as daft as you look unlike most people"

I underestimated on people voting and the cost of transport v's police one.

[ThingummyBob]

D'oh 8/10

... clearly am as daft as I look

[edam]

I only got 5/10 and there was me, thinking 'ooh, this'll be easy'...

[FunnysInLaJardin]

6 out of 10 and slightly divorced from reality too

[spacegoat]

I only got 2 right!! I underestimated most questions. Am sad to find out that 20% of British children are living in poverty.

[Snorbs]

I got 7/10 which surprised me. I thought I would get fewer right.

Over the last few years I've deliberately tried to avoid as much news as possible. It was genuinely starting to depress me. Now I just skim the headlines to make sure I haven't missed the Queen dying for anything particularly noteworthy and ignore the rest. It has definitely improved my quality of life.

[HarrietSchulenberg]

6/10. Got the important ones right (is it really important to know how many people have a Twitter account?).

[edam]

kind of, because newspapers and the rest of the media report twitter reactions to any big news story as if that's news in itself, we need to remember it's a minority.

[Abra1d]

I got 8/10 by using the 'Confound the Daily Mail' technique, too. In fact, the answers on the 'incendiary' questions are usually the lowest figure, so it's easy.

[Hullygully]

I got 9/10, but mainly because it already said most people would get it wrong so it was easy to guess

[VitoCorleone]

I got 3 out of 10 and am apparently "living in cloud cuckoo land"

[FunnysInLaJardin]

Hully you are are girly swot

[TeWiSavesTheDay]

9/10



It was the election question I got wrong - had no idea turnout was decent.

[Pascha]

8/10 I underestimated the number of children living in poverty.