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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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[โ€“] fluckx@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (17 children)

Americans believe 20% of the people have an income of over 1 million dollars and ~~20%~~ 30%of Americans live in NYC. Am I reading this chart wrong?

?????

NYC has a population of what? 10 million people? So they think there's only 30 million people living in the states?

[โ€“] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's interesting to me that NYC, Jewish, and gay/lesbian all had the same wildly incorrect estimate on average.

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