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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] 2 points 1 month ago

This only shows me that Americans are bad at guessing.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I think they should be including a range for the true value for the minorities, since a lot of these numbers are inexact.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

household income over $X per what period of time?

I somehow don't find it very plausible that there are many people who believe that 21% of people are transgender, or even 30% gay or lesbian. But I too would have overestimated the number of atheists.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

3% Gay seems very low though. I really think that number is wrong.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think that this probably generalises from "Americans" to "humans".

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

5% of Americans own a car but not a drivers licence.

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