Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups
Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups
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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?
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NYC stood out to me too. We think 3 out of 10 people in the US live in NYC??? Lmaooo. I think a big part of it is that we just generally don't comprehend statistics because some of these numbers are wild.
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How many of these questions had you really, truly considered before?
I speculate that most Americans just don't think about these things that in depth and, when asked, throw out a number without giving due consideration.
Don't attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by laziness
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Im very sorry, but I cannot in any sane logical line of reasoning think as to why people would say 1/3 Americans live in New York, even if they just blurted out a random number
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Stupidity?
If you're already stupid and you get asked the question, and then don't even bother to give it due consideration, it's entirely plausible you just blurt out a number.
It does also say these are averages so it'd be interesting to see a scatter plot of all respondents.
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Stupidity?
That is what I was getting, yes
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I cannot in any sane logical line of reasoning
Ah, I guess I was thrown by this since it didn't require insanity or illogical reasoning to come up with "stupidity".
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Yes, however as you were implying that a more reasonable explanation lied in the responder's laziness, I was also implying that any reason other than stupidity was requiring of some mental gymnastics
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Maybe because NYC(and LA) are stupidly over represented in the media.
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Well, most of US media is made in, or by companies in, those two cities.
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And?
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That would be why they have more representation.
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You can't even say they NYC is over represented in media because that's where it's filmed. A lot of NYC sitcoms are filmed in LA. The reason is just urban narcissism. I've outright heard a new yorker say that NYC is the cultural center of America and even tried to credit NYC with popularizing pizza in the US.
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A lot of the companies that produce them are from NYC though. Also Pizza was popularized, in the US, from immigrants in NYC, and while america having a single cultural center isn't really thing, if you had to pick one A LOT of people would choose it.
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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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The blue numbers are completely absurd. 30% live in Texas, 32% in California, 30% in NYC. And 20% with a household income over 1 million? I know a couple who are top seniors at Google & Apple, respectively, and while I think they may be over 500k annually, I doubt it's a million. And I definitely know they are far from the median.
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It's interesting to me that NYC, Jewish, and gay/lesbian all had the same wildly incorrect estimate on average.
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2000 Americans polled in this study*
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