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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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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This only shows me that Americans are bad at guessing.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

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