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April 13, 2014 03:06 pm GMT

Can You Beat 400 People at U.S. Geography?

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Just where the hell is Wyoming, anyway? If a survey of 400 people on the Internet is any indication, most of us have no idea.

The folks at Movoto wanted to test common theories about geographic illiteracy against real-time results. Challenging several hundred people to hover over states on their computer screens, the researchers gave each participant five seconds to correctly identify and locate a given U.S. state on a map, while tracking their answers in real time.

The results, unfortunately, are probably what you'd expect (cue the womp womp).

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