TODAY IN NUMBERS
GANODERMA BARCODES 149/1,130PENTAGON CHINA LIST 188 firmsCHENNAI JET FUEL VAT 29% to 16%KOREA CHIP EXPORTS US$50-100bnJUMPING SPIDER SIZE 10 mmOPEN SOURCE SUB RULES 3 contributorsWADA LIST CRITERIA 2 of 3SWISS GLACIER MELT 2.2tn litresMEGA STRIKE POLICY 3 in 6 months
EST. 2026 · FACTS VERIFIED, CONCLUSIONS UNSUPERVISED
THE GULLIBILITY MAP · 2026-10-27

The Gullibility Map

How gullible the news from each country made our readers this week.

GLOBAL AVERAGE59.0%▲ 1.2 since yesterday
Under 4040–5555–7070–8585 and overNo intelligence gathered

Figures invented by our newsroom from this week's stories; they describe our readers, not anyone who lives there. ● marks real reader votes.

CountryIndexSince yesterdayReaders who believed it ●Stories
United Kingdom97.4%unchangedNot enough votes yetKew Settles a 245-Year Mushroom Mix-Up by Establishing Which Fungus the Name Was Never AboutSheffield Reproduces Roman Colour-Changing Glass, Whose Colour Depended on Where in the Furnace It SatRecord 43.6 Million Tonnes of CO2 Stored Underground in 2024, After 2023 Was Revised Down to 41.7Natural History Museum Finds a New European Dinosaur in Its Own Cupboards, Where Thirty Million Specimens Are KeptAI-Designed Enzyme Assembles a Drug Molecule by Ignoring Almost Everything in the FlaskRoman Coffin at Westminster Abbey Is Inscribed to Valerius Amandinus and Contains an Eleventh-Century AbbotFinancial Firms Will Have to Report the Artificial Intelligence Failures That Did Not HappenCompanies Put 28 Per Cent of Their Software Budgets Into Changes They Say They Would Not Have ChosenOrionid Meteor Shower Peaks Over Britain in the Wettest and Windiest Week of the Autumn
Australia97.4%unchangedNot enough votes yetAustralian Jumping Spider Filmed in Two Distinct Sleep Stages, and Will Not Answer When Woken in the SecondMerger Report Is $260m Short in One Place and $311m Over in Another, Which Nets Out at $51mSydney Opens an Airport Called Western Sydney, and Some Passengers Read the Name as a BearingWalker Takes 19 Seconds Off a World Record Set in August, in an Event That Became Official in JanuaryFootballer Licenses an AI Clone That Can Work Around the Clock, Leaving His Consent the Only Thing Still ScarcePacific Forecasts Now Work a Year Ahead, Provided the Pacific Has Already Decided What It Is DoingShop Owner Finds an Ice Cream at the Bottom of a Freezer and Dates It by the WrapperFast-Fashion Giant Scores 28 Out of 100 for Ethics and Still Finishes Above Myer, Seafolly and Three Brands on ZeroAustralians Pass 1,000 Laps in a Race Whose Only Finishing Condition Is That Everybody Else Stops
United States97.4%unchangedNot enough votes yetMeta Says It Removes Pirated Sports Streams Before Anyone Watches or Complains, Leaving Nothing Left to CountLos Angeles May Record Its Highest Tide in 102 Years, With Effects Confined to Walkways and Car ParksFootballer Licenses an AI Clone That Can Work Around the Clock, Leaving His Consent the Only Thing Still ScarceAntonelli Leads by 102 Points and Must Be 125 Ahead After Sunday, Which He Cannot Arrange by DrivingAI-Designed Enzyme Assembles a Drug Molecule by Ignoring Almost Everything in the FlaskNew Language Absorbs Python, TypeScript and C, and Will Turn Itself Back Into Them on RequestNWSL Removes the Criteria for High Impact Player Status, Leaving a Salary as the Only Way to QualifyBill Would Impose Blocking Duties on VPNs With 100,000 Monthly American Users, Who Are Not Meant to Be CountableAmerican Coffee Has Gained Forty Per Cent More Calories Without Anybody Drinking More CoffeeNASA Panel Puts the Launches Needed for One Moon Landing at 22, a Number That Has Only Ever Gone UpAtlantic Storm Will Reach Hurricane-Force Winds and Cannot Be Called a Hurricane, for Structural ReasonsSwimmer Covers California's 900-Mile Coast in Four Months and Is First Until the Records Have Been ReviewedAmazon Will Hire 300,000 Seasonal Workers Into the Weakest Holiday Jobs Market Since 2008Companies Put 28 Per Cent of Their Software Budgets Into Changes They Say They Would Not Have ChosenCourt Orders Meta to Name Who Decided to Torrent the Books, After the Company Said Nobody Did
France72.1%▲ 1.9Not enough votes yetBill Would Impose Blocking Duties on VPNs With 100,000 Monthly American Users, Who Are Not Meant to Be CountableVan Gogh's Starry Night Matched to the Sky of 22 July 1889, a Month After He Is Said to Have Painted ItQuad9 Will Stop Serving France Rather Than Block 58 Domains, Thereby Blocking All of ThemNew Literary Prize Wants Fiction Written With AI That Also Solves a Problem Threatening Humanity
Switzerland67.2%▲ 34.1Not enough votes yetSwiss Glaciers Delivered Four Years of Household Drinking Water in Three Months, Which Is Not the Same as Having ItQuad9 Will Stop Serving France Rather Than Block 58 Domains, Thereby Blocking All of Them
India66.7%▼ 9.4Not enough votes yetRBI Study Finds Rate Cuts Pass Through Worse Than Rises, and Also Better, Depending on the AverageIndia Sets a 310 Billion Euro Trade Target With Germany by Adding a Zero to 31.5 Billion, Which Would Have Given 315India's Rate-Setters Adopt a Stance That Permits a Rise or a Pause, Narrowing the Future to Two of Its Three OptionsKey-Generation Ceremony Produced a Strong Set of Keys and a Weak Set, and Nothing Could Tell Them Apart for Seventeen MonthsEleven Kilograms of Spice Cover 175.82 Square Metres and Take a World Record, Which Measures Only the Square Metres
Japan65.9%▲ 9.9Not enough votes yetUS Air Base in Okinawa Turns Away Chinese Electric Cars, Taxis Included, Over a Risk It Says Cannot Be MitigatedWalker Takes 19 Seconds Off a World Record Set in August, in an Event That Became Official in JanuaryTokyo Has Its Latest Midsummer Day Since 1875, Midsummer Being a Temperature Rather Than a Date
South Korea55.0%▲ 14.1Not enough votes yetBank of Korea Puts a Price on Pessimism, and It Is Fifty to a Hundred Billion DollarsVan Gogh's Starry Night Matched to the Sky of 22 July 1889, a Month After He Is Said to Have Painted It
South Africa48.2%▼ 1.9Not enough votes yetSouth Africa's Trade With China Is Up 24 Per Cent Since Tariffs Came Off Its Exports, and Most of the Rise Is Imports
China46.6%▼ 1.9Not enough votes yetSouth Africa's Trade With China Is Up 24 Per Cent Since Tariffs Came Off Its Exports, and Most of the Rise Is ImportsFast-Fashion Giant Scores 28 Out of 100 for Ethics and Still Finishes Above Myer, Seafolly and Three Brands on Zero
New Zealand45.7%▼ 6.1Not enough votes yetMinistry Priced Shared Articles at $49.95 Each and the Publisher Priced Them at $49.95 a Person a Month
Canada42.0%▲ 1.9Not enough votes yetAtlantic Storm Will Reach Hurricane-Force Winds and Cannot Be Called a Hurricane, for Structural ReasonsVancouver Has Had Eight Per Cent of Its October Rain, and the Storms Have Been Sent to Alaska
Pakistan38.6%▼ 1.9Not enough votes yetEngland Captain Sets the Fastest Double Century in One-Day History and Says It Does Not Count
Germany37.2%▼ 1.9Not enough votes yetIndia Sets a 310 Billion Euro Trade Target With Germany by Adding a Zero to 31.5 Billion, Which Would Have Given 315
Greece33.3%▼ 1.9Not enough votes yetSantorini Serves an Invasive Fish to 370 Diners, Standing In for the Natural Predator the Mediterranean Does Not Have
Lithuania33.3%▼ 18.1Not enough votes yetLaser Built From a Material That Dissolves in Air Runs for 400 Million Pulses, Which Is Where the Counting Stopped
REALITY CHECK · HOW WE CALCULATE IT

Every figure on this map is made up.

Each country starts the day on a random wobble between 24 and 44. For every story from that country in the past week we add six points, plus one for every four words our analysts needed to reach their conclusion, up to ten more. Stories more than a day old count half. Nothing goes above 97.4%, because nothing is certain. Politics stories are left off the map.

The figures describe our stories and our readers. They say nothing about anyone who lives in these countries. The only real numbers here are marked ●: the share of readers who told the Credulity Meter under each article that they believed it before the twist, shown once five readers have voted.