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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (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 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.