How long could you survive in the wilderness if you had to?
According to Study Finds, the average person thinks that if you dropped them in the middle of nowhere, they could survive in the wilderness for 16 days.
Again, that's survive, not survive comfortably. So, as long as you could find water and not freeze, you might make it.
The "not freezing" part might be tough though, because less than one in five Americans are confident they could start a fire if they only had flint. And without flint, it's probably closer to zero percent.
Only one in seven think they'd be able to tell which plants and berries were edible and which ones might kill them. And two-thirds of us don't know what poison ivy looks like. That could make for a very painful 16 days!
