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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago

Funny that more people own a car than have a driver's license.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 days ago (14 children)

The 42% are democrats and 47% are republicans is the true surprise. That is a huge difference even though it might not seem like it.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hold up.

83% have a driver's license but 88% have a car?

So 5% of Americans either have a car for the hell of it, or they drive without a license?

And there's only 3% that are atheists? More people drive without a license than are atheists?

Excuse me?

If these numbers are correct, the US is more fucked than I thought.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its possible they have lost their licence and still own a car, or the car is just in their name.

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

I wonder how much of MAGA knows the entire population of illegal immigrants is estimated at a WHOPPING 3% of our population.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

92% of their population lives in either California, Texas, or NYC, if you do the maths.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Also between 30% gay/lesbian and 29% bisexual, only 41% are straight 🥴

(Ignoring asexuals, etc.)

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[–] Poxlox@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I did a quick check on one of the facts, the christian one, this says 70% in 2022 but i see 62% for 2022, which is a lot closer to the 58% estimate. Makes me feel a bit sketched out about possible cherry picking, but cool notion still.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

29% Asian? 🤣

I fucking wish

As an Asian American, I don't feel safe going to a red jurisdiction.

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[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Honestly the most shocking number to me is that 65% of Americans own a house. How can 62% have a household income "over $50,000" and 65% own a house? Is it all old people?

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Here's the methodology according to the YouGov website:

Methodology: This article includes findings from two U.S. News surveys conducted by YouGov on two nationally representative samples of 1,000 U.S. adult citizens interviewed online from January 14-20, 2022. The first survey included questions on groups involving race, education, income, family, gender, and sexuality, while the second survey included questions on religion, politics, and other miscellaneous groups. The samples were weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the 2018 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as 2016 and 2020 Presidential votes (or non-votes). Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of all U.S. citizens. Real proportions were taken from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, YouGov’s internal poll results, and the results of other well-established polling firms. Most estimates were collected within the past three years; the oldest is from 2009. Because the real estimates presented cover a range of time periods, they may differ from actual population sizes at the time our survey was conducted.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Sample size of 1000 is absolutely nothing for so many detailed/granular questions. Let alone then weighing the few sub-groups etc.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

People just have no idea what numbers mean. And, look at how education works here, who could blame them?

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reminder that a McDonald's new burger campaign failed because people thought a ⅓ lb burger was smaller than a ¼ lb burger.

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[–] Subversive@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (5 children)
  • 64% white
  • 39% hispanic
  • 41% black
  • 29% asian
  • 30% jewish
  • 27% native americans

All the 230% of US population.

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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't have guessed you guys would have more vegans than union members

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Part of this is people obviously not thinking about one per hundred and just giving a random percentage like number. Everything is clustered around 25, and 50 percent. This isn't reasonably measuring much(if anything as I can assure you nobody believes 90 percent of people live in either Texas, California, or NYC). The headline should be "don't poll people by asking what they think about qualitatively and asking them to translate it into quantitative percentages because you'll receive nonsense." Trying to reach other conclusions from such absolute noise really is just making things up.

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