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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Imagine thinking 1 in 5 people are trans... Just... This has to be a math understanding issue, right??

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it's a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big "issue" medias are making of them.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd honestly believe the opposite, with people living in liberal cities overestimating. Personallt, in a friend group of about 15, 4 are trans.

Just because you're progressive, doesn't mean you're good at math or understand statistics.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You know, thinking back about how big the number is, it's probably both.

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