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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)

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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Mississippi more like.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Feels like they polled an elementary school in Jersey

You mean the state with the highest ranked Pre-K-12 by US News and World Report? That Jersey?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12

Errr, I mean "Lol Jersey sucks amirite?"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not even relevant. Kids are stupid about scope at this age regardless of location. Jersey would explain the perspective disproportion of the NYC stat, which is a major outlier in the set while fitting the rest of the patterns well. Fa get abo dit

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation.

Seems relevant to me.

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