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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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[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I have a lot of doubt over the graph just based on how they average the results. You're bound to get people guessing super high or super low, which would skew if they were just getting the mean.