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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] Subversive@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

64% white
39% hispanic
41% black
29% asian
30% jewish
27% native americans

All the 230% of US population.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Mixed people exist racist!!!" - twitter

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

plus jewish isnt a race really. I mean it can be but you totally see most jewish people identify as jewish and white or jewish and arab.

Same as hispanic. It’s not really a “race”. So you have hispanic people who often identify as both hispanic and white, or hispanic and black, or hispanic and native american.

[–] Subversive@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I'm not wrong, these categories are exclusive in the US census.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Which is really weird and is more just a tell on how the US elite racialises different groups than anything.

[–] huppakee 3 points 3 days ago

They should have provided a crash course in percentages before letting people do the questionable maybe.