Sunday, 16 December, 2018

The Perception Gap

The Perception Gap

Posted on Thursday, 15 December, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Perception Gap.

This is a really interesting quiz done by Ipsos Mori when they surveyed people in 40 countries on issues ranging from attitudes to homosexuality to numbers of Muslims, and many other facts and figures that we ought to know before meaningful judgments can be made at times, and found the gulf between perception and reality is often huge. This quiz also lets you see if you can do any better concerning perceptions about your own country. The correct answers are immediately available after each question, and it is compared with how you have done among your own countrymen. A score is tabulated at the end of the quiz to indicate where you stand in comparison to all the 40 countries’ citizens.

Take The Quiz Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2016/dec/14/the-perception-gap-how-well-do-you-know-your-country-take-our-quiz

Read Article Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2016/dec/13/europeans-massively-overestimate-muslim-population-poll-shows

Geminids and Friends.
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias). From a radiant in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rained down this week. This skyscape collects about 70 of Gemini's lovely shooting stars in a digital composition made from multiple exposures taken over a six-hour period near the shower's peak on December 14 from Teide National Park on the Canary Island Tenerife. Though Gemini lies off the top left of the frame, the Milky Way sweeps through the starry background. Sharing the sky below and left of center are recognizable stars and nebulosities of Orion. A yellowish Aldebaran and the Hyades are toward the right along with the Pleiades star cluster. The faint green coma of Comet 46P Wirtanen, closest to Earth this weekend, lies below the Pleiades stars. Dust swept up from the orbit of active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini's meteors enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at about 35 kilometers per second.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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