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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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?

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I have a lot of doubt over the graph just based on how they average the results. You're bound to get people guessing super high or super low, which would skew if they were just getting the mean.

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