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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Feels like they polled an elementary school in Jersey

You mean the state with the highest ranked Pre-K-12 by US News and World Report? That Jersey?

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12

Errr, I mean "Lol Jersey sucks amirite?"

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not even relevant. Kids are stupid about scope at this age regardless of location. Jersey would explain the perspective disproportion of the NYC stat, which is a major outlier in the set while fitting the rest of the patterns well. Fa get abo dit

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation.

Seems relevant to me.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Mississippi more like.