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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (infosec.pub)
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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 16 points 4 months 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 17 points 4 months 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.

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago

They really should have started selling ⅕ lb burgers to make up for their losses

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Astronomers have been telling us for a long time that humans can’t fathom the scale of the universe.

But somehow we can fathom numbers of the same orders of magnitude when we talk about earthly affairs.

If people can’t understand how far away Mars is, how can they understand human population numbers?