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Wulri@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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Wulri@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world ·
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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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    People think 30% of the U.S population lives in New York?

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      Sometimes you see data and just know that the methodology had to have been shit.

      The average response thought 30% of the US was in NY?! No fucking chance.

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        Maybe the average person is stupid

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          You can drop the “maybe.”

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      That’s what actually brought me to the comments. The fuck? OK, so now NYC pop is about 10mil, non-NYC NY is about 10 mil, and non-NYC NYC metro is about 10 mil. How do you get even 30 mil to represent 30% of 350mil? Confuse it with the Iranian population of 92mil? And 30% is the average of the responses!

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