I got 10 right and was only confident in 1 of my answers that I got wrong. The link I took it at said average is 40% right, which is way off the scores rosling got, so I do wonder if his study replicates. If he’s doing the normal thing and testing it all on students, I would expect them to be more pessimistic bc they are in that “everything sucks” phase of life as teenagers, and the media about the same because reporters have a particular bias toward negativity, because it’s what they feed on. In fact I am sufficiently confident about the negativity of reporters, both in terms of professional experience and the kind of person who is drawn to the job in the first place, that it makes me rather suspicious to find any group of people that does as poorly as them on the test, and teenagers hate everything is the only explanation I can come up with.
I got 10 right and was only confident in 1 of my answers that I got wrong. The link I took it at said average is 40% right, which is way off the scores rosling got, so I do wonder if his study replicates. If he’s doing the normal thing and testing it all on students, I would expect them to be more pessimistic bc they are in that “everything sucks” phase of life as teenagers, and the media about the same because reporters have a particular bias toward negativity, because it’s what they feed on. In fact I am sufficiently confident about the negativity of reporters, both in terms of professional experience and the kind of person who is drawn to the job in the first place, that it makes me rather suspicious to find any group of people that does as poorly as them on the test, and teenagers hate everything is the only explanation I can come up with.