(It appears that Americans are over-optimistic about social mobility, Europeans over-pessimistic. Americans are very unlikely to go from poor to rich (bottom quintile to top in this case), but think it's easy. Europeans are rather more likely to, but think it's impossible.)
This is actually kind of what you'd expect (in particular because of how expensive university education is in the US), but it doesn't really gel with how people _think_ the world works.
(It appears that Americans are over-optimistic about social mobility, Europeans over-pessimistic. Americans are very unlikely to go from poor to rich (bottom quintile to top in this case), but think it's easy. Europeans are rather more likely to, but think it's impossible.)
This is actually kind of what you'd expect (in particular because of how expensive university education is in the US), but it doesn't really gel with how people _think_ the world works.