Poll Reveals What Americans Really Know About Ukraine

Poll Reveals What Americans Really Know About Ukraine

High officials in U.S. government are no doubt weighing America’s policy options in the Ukrainian conflict. Nearly a quarter of Americans know what we should do about the Ukraine Administrative Adjustment Act of 2005, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.
That’s not a good thing, because the Ukraine Administrative Adjustment Act doesn’t exist.

On a more positive note, 76 percent of Americans apparently recognized they didn’t know enough — about the Ukraine crisis generally or about the purported law specifically — to express an opinion on whether the law should be repealed.

The new survey highlights a key problem with surveys of public opinion on issues that Americans aren’t fully engaged in: Some people will answer questions about complex matters they don’t fully understand — or even those, like the aforementioned Ukraine Administrative Adjustment Act, that don’t exist at all.

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