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there is a logical explanation here, no?
First they selected only people who failed, but still, they are seeing the same map as us?
I don't want to believe it's legit! please! Are the maps in the USA shaped differently for them to be so confused, was there an all you can drink buffet behind?
Jimmy Kimmel's show is filmed in the El Capitan in the heart of Hollywood Blvd. As long as the sun is out (and a few hours after), that street will be perpetually littered with people from all corners of the country, and the world. Choosing only 4-5 people out of the hundreds that pass by every hour is not a true indicator of reality
Also, USA maps usually have the north American continent directly in the center:
https://www.freeworldmaps.net/world/america-centric/america-centered-worldmap.jpg
Nevertheless, those specific people are so fucking humiliatingly stupid, and yet they vote. So...
US citizen here, all the world maps the teachers had on the walls in school placed the North American continent in the top left, with the Prime Meridian running along the center or very close to it (sometimes things were adjusted a bit so that Siberia would be entirely on the right side of the map instead of straddling both edges). North American-centric world maps might very occasionally show up, but only in contexts where it made more sense to divide Eurasia than the Pacific.