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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Wulri@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 103 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago

Mississippi more like.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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?"

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.