This only shows me that Americans are bad at guessing.
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indians, from india are one of the richest POC groups in america.
I think that this probably generalises from "Americans" to "humans".
household income over $X per what period of time?
I somehow don't find it very plausible that there are many people who believe that 21% of people are transgender, or even 30% gay or lesbian. But I too would have overestimated the number of atheists.
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5% of Americans own a car but not a drivers licence.
I think this bias happens a bit anywhere where there is a limited range to opinion about, may be the interesting part is where is the tilt point, with the corresponding error estimation...