A new report shows that Australians have a warped perception of their own country. Source: News Limited
AUSTRALIA, you may like to think you know this wide brown land of ours well, but it turns out we have some pretty significant blind spots.
The Perils of Perception report by market research company Ipsos has revealed that there is a significant gap between the perception and the reality of who makes up the Australian population.
"Aussies tend to be wrong when asked about the make-up of their population and the scale of key social issues such as immigration and unemployment," the report states.
Based on a survey of about 1000 Australians, Ipsos found that we tended to over-estimate the number of Muslims in the population and underestimate the number of Christians.
Australians tended to over-estimate the number of Muslim people in the country. Source: News Limited
The average person guessed that there were 18 Muslims out of every 100 Australians, when in fact there are only two. Similarly we guessed that 45 per cent were Christian when the true percentage is 61.
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Only 6 per cent of adults are unemployed, but the average Aussie thinks it's 23 per cent; and we think 35 in every 100 Australians are immigrants, when it is only 28.
Of the respondents, about 33 per cent believed more than half of the population was made up of people born in a country other than Australia.
"Respondents who thought immigration was more than double the actual figure said the main reason they over-estimated is because they believe immigrants enter the country without being counted," the report states.
More than half of Australians also incorrectly believe that the murder rate is rising.
There is a significant gap between the perception and the reality of who makes up the Australian population. Source: Supplied
The study covered 13 other countries with high internet penetration — Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the US — surveying a total of 11,527 adults.
On the report's Index of Ignorance, we finished 9th out of the 14 countries. Italy was on top with its people giving the least accurate responses, followed by the US and South Korea.
Australia was equal fourth with Great Britain in exaggerating the number of Muslims in the country, behind France, Belgium and Canada.
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Read more about the Perils of Perception report here.
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