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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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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Imagine thinking 1 in 5 people are trans... Just... This has to be a math understanding issue, right??

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

For sure. Many Americans are confused by percentages. They do not understand that 20% is equivalent to saying "in a room of 100 people, 20 of them are trans", and even if they did understand that, they wouldn't have the proactive reasoning to make sure their percentage estimates add up/overlap in a way that makes sense, e.g not implying that 20 people in the room are all Hispanic Asian atheist Catholic bisexual transgender millionaires.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We’re talking about a population, where a 1/3lbs burger was rejected for being smaller than the 1/4lbs. But even besides that, the fear-mongering, and the propaganda, have clearly worked

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