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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

very very interesting indeed. i wonder what are the effects of this ..

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They think almost 25% of people are trans?? Jesus fucking christ

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

3% Atheists is such a bullshit number. There is a famous Pew poll, where they asked people two questions side by side, "are you an atheist" and "do you believe in any god", and 4% answered no to the first one and something like 20% answered no to the second one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Sounds about right, there's a difference between atheism and agnosticism, which is what the 2nd question is asking.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think "atheist" carries the connotations of being irreligeous, not just not believing in any gods. So some people may not believe in any gods, but maybe they do have some kind of spirituality, or believe in ghosts or something. Buddhism as a religion doesn't mandate God-belief, though some schools do interact with devas. I'm unsure if any other religions don't require gods to work, but even if they exist, I imagine they and Buddhists, despite not believing in any gods, will be very hesitant to describe themselves as "atheist."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

What morons did they ask? Holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

92 % of the population lives in either California, new York or Texas?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Don't you know? The only city in the USA is either New York or Los Angleas or San Francisco. If its a movie about alien invasion then Washington, DC will also show up.

If its UK, the only city is London.

If its China, the only cities that exist are Beijing or Shanghai.

If its Japan, the only city that exist is Tokyo.

Welcome to Hollywood!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

29% Asian? 🤣

I fucking wish

As an Asian American, I don't feel safe going to a red jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Lol, right?

My dad was in the Air Force so we moved all over the place, but whenever we were stationed in the South in the 90's I would often be the first Asian person to ever go to that school.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.

***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Imagine thinking 1 in 5 people are trans... Just... This has to be a math understanding issue, right??

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Before traveling to California, I had people in my neighborhood plead with me not to go because the whole state is a "disaster area" and that the cities are burning and that there are "drug needles everywhere you walk" and that I was putting my life and those of my loved ones in serious danger. They thought with 100% certainty that Los Angeles was completely on fire from looting and I was going to some kind of Mad Max hellscape. Without exaggeration. They wouldn't listen to reassurance and were genuinely worried.

Granted some of these people were older, they weren't suffering dementia and could still drive. They just park in front of FOX news all day, every day, 24-hours a day swallowing conservative propaganda. They also have algorithmic filtering on their facebook and twitter.

Our perspectives of each others worlds has been damaged beyond repair because of this filtering. We have it on the left/progressive side too, showing us a different reflection of a pandering, emotionally validating worldview. Not as malicious maybe, but we are all trapped.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it's a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big "issue" medias are making of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd honestly believe the opposite, with people living in liberal cities overestimating. Personallt, in a friend group of about 15, 4 are trans.

Just because you're progressive, doesn't mean you're good at math or understand statistics.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

they estimated 21% of the population are trans, lol I wish 😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah that's bananas. I wonder if people saying 1 in 5 people are trans even know a trans person

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If 21% of the population was trans, republicans ain't winning elections again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

You underestimate the proportion of dumb people. Trans people can also be dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only 4% union members - no wonder the US is so fucked for workers

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