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How well do you understand your world?

Tim Harford talks to Bobby Duffy about why we are all often wrong about a lot of basic facts.

What proportion of your country are immigrants? What proportion of teenage girls give birth each year? Research suggests most people get the answer to these questions, and many others about everyday facts, very wrong. Tim Harford interviews Bobby Duffy, Global Director of Ipsos Social Research Institute and author of the book, Perils of Perception: Why We鈥檙e Wong About Nearly Everything, about our most common mistakenly-held beliefs and what they reveal about us.

(image: The pregnant belly of a 14 year old girl in Britain. Photo Credit: Tina Stallard/Getty Images)

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9 minutes

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Tue 4 Sep 2018 01:50GMT

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  • Sun 2 Sep 2018 18:50GMT
  • Mon 3 Sep 2018 12:50GMT
  • Tue 4 Sep 2018 01:50GMT

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