Are Iranians the angriest people in the world?
In this context, it is necessary to answer the following questions:
- Where is the source of the statistics of the most angry people in the world?
- According to these sources, are Iranian people the most angry people in the world?
- Are Iranian people in the list of the most angry people in the world?
- What is the basis of the ranking of centers investigating this issue and how reliable is it?
In the following, we will try to answer each of these questions.
Where is the source of the statistics of the most angry people in the world?
What the media publishes and does about the statistics of the world’s angriest people is based on a Gallup poll. On August 11, this institute published a new ranking list of the world’s angriest people based on its survey in 2021 and early 2022.
According to the results of this report, 49 percent of Lebanese people experienced a high amount of negative emotions caused by anger and anger at the time they were questioned, and in this regard, they were at the top of the Gallup global ranking. In this ranking, after the leading Lebanon, there are four neighboring countries of Iran. Turkey (48 percent), Iraq (46 percent), Armenia (46 percent) and Afghanistan (41 percent) have occupied the second to fifth places of the angriest people in the world, respectively.
Gallup, better known as the Gallup Institute in Iran, is a management consulting company and one of the most famous and reliable polling institutes in the world.
George House Gallup, one of the experts in the use of statistical methods in the study of public opinion, founded the Institute of Public Inquiry on December 27, 1935, which is called Gallup after him. The expenses of this institution are financed by the subscription fee of advertising and production institutions in the United States of America. Many countries of the world refer to this institute in various cases to get information about public opinion.
Gallop in his site, It has introduced itself as “a global consulting and analytics company” that “helps leaders and organizations solve their most important problems” and its goal is to:
“We know more than anyone in the world about the will of our employees, customers, students and citizens, to know what is important to them in work and life and how those priorities change over time, and to use that knowledge to create change.”
According to these statistics, are Iranian people among the most angry people in the world?
In Gallup’s 2021 survey, Iranians are ranked ninth after Sierra Leone, Mali and Jordan. The reason is that 34 percent of Iranians participating in the Gallup Institute interview stated that they have become extremely angry and angry recently.
Of course, Gallup’s more complete measure is the amount of negative experiences, including “physical pain, worry, sadness, stress and anger”, and in this index, Iran’s situation is better and it is not higher among 10 countries.
In 2016, the result of the Gallup poll became the headline of many media, and that was that Iranians are the most angry people in the world. Gallup, in its 2017 annual report, in a research conducted based on the study of the situation of 142 countries, introduced the people of Iran as the most angry people in the world. In this report, the people of Iran with 50%, Iraq with 49% and South Sudan with 47% were introduced as the most angry countries in the world.
However, sometimes this result, which is related to the review of a few years ago, is republished in the following years regardless of its time, which is an unprofessional action.
Just this year, some media reported that Iran has set a record among the most angry people in the world and claimed Iran’s third rank, but in the chart they used, it is clear that the statistics are from 2018 (four years ago).
With this in mind, if we measure the latest Gallup poll, the results of which were announced less than a month ago, Iran’s position is the ninth most angry people in the world, but in fact, Iranian people are not the most angry people in the world.
What is Gallup’s ranking based on and how reliable is it?
This ranking is based on the sampling method among the adult population of 15 years and older in 122 countries and regions of the world and obtained through telephone and face-to-face interviews. This company has conducted global research to discover the emotional state of people in more than 100 countries and regions.
For this purpose, 3,500 interviews were conducted in China, 3,000 in India and 2,000 interviews in Russia, and in 2020, in addition to several survey centers in countries and regions with a sample size of 1,000 respondents or more, some face-to-face interviews in the Republic of Congo, India , Mali, Pakistan and Senegal.
Gallup has admitted that in addition to sampling error, question phrasing and practical problems in conducting surveys can cause errors or poll bias.
The world has become a worse place to live!
In addition to the decline in positive experiences, the “Negative Experience” index shows that the world is a sadder, more anxious and stressful place than it was a year ago, even if people are slightly less angry.
Gallup explained its methodology by asking adults in 122 countries and regions if they had five different negative experiences in the day before the survey. 4 in 10 adults said they had experienced a lot of worry (42%) or stress (41%), and just over 3 in 10 had experienced a lot of physical pain (31%). More than one in four people experienced sadness (28%) and slightly less anger (23%).
According to this research, the experiences of “stress, worry and sadness” which had reached their peak in 2020, increased again in 2021 and set new records. Worry increased by 2 points, while stress and sadness increased by 1 point. The percentage of adults worldwide who experienced pain also increased by 2 points, which is in line with previous estimates. Higher percentages in most of the index items brought the overall world score to the highest level of 33.
Gallup aggregated the “yes” answers to these five questions into a Negative Experience Index score for each country.
Did you experience the following feelings during yesterday? What about physical pain?
What about worry?
What about sadness?
How about stress?
how about anger
some Iranian media, challenged Gallup’s statistical methods and posed the question, “What indicator can determine whether the inhabitants of a village in the Maghreb or a tribal people in the Amazon or this same Iran enjoy less than the residents of Scandinavia or Switzerland?!” They believe that there is no scientific ruler for such a comparison, everything is a forgery and an attempt to impose a kind of life on other ways.
Of course, Gallup has explained how it did its research, but the perception of anger, stress, sadness, etc. may not be completely the same in different parts of the world.
National version of Anger Feelings Survey
In addition to the Gallup Institute, the Iranian Students’ Opinion Survey Center (ISPA) also conducted a 1,400 survey of Iranian people’s feelings of anger over the phone with a sample size of 2,088 residents of urban and rural areas.
In this survey, in which the opinions of people over the age of 18 were measured, 33.6% of the respondents stated that they agree to a great extent or completely that they “usually lose their temper quickly”, 15.2% said that the people around them They know someone is angry, 23.4% start yelling when angry, 5.1% throw or break things, 3.6% said they beat the other person when angry, 31 4% said that if others behaved angrily towards them, they would reciprocate and 11.3% mentioned that they felt angry at someone or something at this very moment.
Of course, the question of this survey is different from the global case, but it confirms the existence of anger in Iranians.
With this account, this verification can be summarized in the following table:
| Row | Claim |
verification
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| 1 | Iranian people are the angriest people in the world | incorrect |
| 2 | Iranian people are in the list of the most angry people in the world | Relatively true |
| 3 | The rating center is reliable and its results are reliable | Relatively true |