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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So looking at that chart the average person thinks that (roughly), one in four people are native American, one in four people are Asian, two in five people are black as well as two in five people being Hispanic. Or to use the given percentages the average American thinks that 136% of Americans are non-white. I suppose that explains a lot of the "white genocide" hysteria.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, obviously if only -36% of people are white we have already been genocided.