I think they should be including a range for the true value for the minorities, since a lot of these numbers are inexact.
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Americans believe a single city (New York) represents 30% of the American population?
Forget that. They think one out of their first 3 friends they have is gay. Assuming they're straight that means 50% of their friends are gay. Fuck that means they think 25% of their first 4 friends are trans.
Math is not their strong point apparently
TBF if you join random chat groups to meet people you might find abkut that proportion, but not roaming the parks and streets, no.
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I did a quick check on one of the facts, the christian one, this says 70% in 2022 but i see 62% for 2022, which is a lot closer to the 58% estimate. Makes me feel a bit sketched out about possible cherry picking, but cool notion still.
bullshit there is no way people believe that 34% of the population is lefthanded.
Holy, holy, holy...they actually thought 21% of people are transgender? 1 in 5?? The only thing this proves is the polled Americans are stupid AF. 🙄🙄🙄
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30% Jewish, 27% Muslim, 58% Christian, 33% atheist. A very odd mix to estimate.
If giving 110% is good, then giving over 148% is even better.
But I can believe it, it's not like they asked people to enumerate all at once, they presumably asked one at a time to estimate, and it's not like they are likely to try to reconcile those guesses with each other even if made in one sitting.
Well only 8% of the population lives outside California, Texas, and NYC.
very very interesting indeed. i wonder what are the effects of this ..