According to a survey by a UK-based research company Ipsos MORI, Singaporeans are ranked 8th in the world for being the most ignorant among 40 countries. 27,250 interviews over 40 countries were conducted between 22nd September – 6th November 2016, and approximately 500 individuals aged 16-64 were surveyed in Singapore.
“Looking across the five questions about factual realities, we have calculated a measure of how accurate the population of each country is. This gives us our “Index of Ignorance”.”
Here are the top 10 most ignorant countries in the world:
1. India
2. China
3. Taiwan
4. South Africa
5. US
6. Brazil
7. Thailand
8. Singapore
9. Turkey
10. Indonesia
You may view the survey result here.
The Singapore ruling party thrives on falsehoods and propaganda half-truth propagated by the state-controlled media. With the ignorance of the masses, the ruling party government is able to introduce undemocratic laws and even new laws like the recent changes to the Presidential election that contravene the country’s constitution.
Media censorship is crucial to maintaining a level of ignorance among the public to keep politics “stable”. The Singapore government also set aside an undisclosed budget every year on online propaganda smearing government critics with an internet brigade, similar that of China’s “50-cent army”.