{"id":19782,"date":"2022-03-26T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=19782"},"modified":"2022-03-27T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T19:21:45","slug":"we-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/03\/we-made-history\/","title":{"rendered":"We Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"

credit for the link goes to J Metzger<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an interesting study published already some years ago “We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation\u2019s Role in World History<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

6185 students from 35 countries were asked, \u201cWhat contribution do you think the country you are living in has made to world history?\u201d They provided an estimate from 0 to 100%, where 0% indicated that the country made no contribution to world history and 100% indicated that all contributions came from the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I extracted now the table data, repeated the analysis and correlated it also with the Nature country\/territory research output<\/a><\/p>\n

10 lines of R code and the results are hilarious…<\/p>\n

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national identification<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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inhabitants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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research index<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, some countries severely overestimate their role in the world.<\/p>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

credit for the link goes to J Metzger Here is an interesting study published already some years ago “We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation\u2019s Role in World History“.   CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3102],"tags":[3824,3825],"class_list":["post-19782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-one-world","tag-russia","tag-research-output"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19801,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions\/19801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}