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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

bullshit there is no way people believe that 34% of the population is lefthanded.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago

Everyone here talking about the minority groups when I think the real story is people thinking 1/5 Americans are making $1M/yr.

What are these people smoking? I need some.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The actual problem is that if you show this data to the respondents, they wouldn't change their answers.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

30% bisexuals. Not even I would have guessed that high.

I would have said 5% and am happy im kinda close

[–] Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is one of those things where context being broken down affects a lot. If you ask only GenZ, they respond more like 15% bi, and millennials is somewhere in the ballpark of 5%. I'd be willing to bet the responses used to make the OP are similarly skewed by demographic for the obvious reasons.

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[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Actually it's 50% on everything you either belong to a group or you don't /j

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US has transformed disinformation into an art form at this point.

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