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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Where's Due North Korea?


Can you lot correctly set the place of Democratic People's South Korea on an unlabeled map? If you lot tin strength out together with hence you lot are to a greater extent than probable to favor a diplomatic together with non-military response to Democratic People's South Korea than individual who can't detect it on a map.

The New York Times asked 1,746 people to detect Democratic People's South Korea on a map. 36 per centum got it right. These same 1,746 people were together with hence asked a serial of questions most what dissever of measures they would back upward the USA inwards carrying out against North Korea. Those who could set Democratic People's South Korea on a map were to a greater extent than inwards favor of economical sanctions. To endure fair fifty-fifty entirely 9% of those who couldn't detect Democratic People's South Korea on a map supported the sentiment of an American armed forces response.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 similar experiment was carried out inwards 2014 bespeak Americans if they could locate Ukraine on a map of the world. The experiment, carried out past times political scientists from Dartmouth College, Harvard University together with Princeton University, had similar results. Only i inwards half dozen Americans could correctly locate Ukraine on a map.

The Americans were besides asked a publish of questions most how the USA should answer to Russia's invasion of the Crimean peninsula. The farther the respondents gauge was from the right place together with hence the to a greater extent than probable they were to back upward armed forces intervention past times the USA.

It appears that geographic literacy makes people to a greater extent than diplomatic together with less militaristic.