I think this study could have been interesting if it wasn't politically motivated. International perception of one's own country is not something that is easily comprehensible because people don't come in contact with foreigners often even with the internet. Asking people to guess the results of surveys though is really stupid and taking these guesses being right or wrong as indicators of anything at all let alone national overconfidence is really just bizarre.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was wondering if it wouldn't work to coalesce public opinion more in favor of the Chinese leadership.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't go that far. My view is that the participants were made to play a silly game with opaque trends. The ones who were in the "teaching group" to whom the correct answers were revealed were able to understand the game's trend better and were able to guess better after that. Saying that this has any long term effects of any kind is optimistic to put it lightly.

[–] HerSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I hope PRC's defences hold up well against all this rubbish.