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Wulri@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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Wulri@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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      They think 21% are transgender too… A lot of propaganda has gone through these people.

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      By the looks of it, it’s 30% to NYC, 30% to Texas, and 30% to California. So 10% for literally everywhere else in the US. That’s gotta be close, right?

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    Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia

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    These estimates are bananas, this only shows the systematic stupidification of Americans is highly successful.

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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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    It seems the real thing this survey shows is most Americans are fucking dumb.

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    They think almost 25% of people are trans?? Jesus fucking christ

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    Only 3% Atheists… And all of them are here on Lemmy.

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      I know Americans love Jesus a whole lot but really only 4%. That just seems crazy low

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    they estimated 21% of the population are trans, lol I wish 😂

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    92 % of the population lives in either California, new York or Texas?

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    33% have a college degree yet only 3% are atheist. That’s batshit crazy. I can’t imagine having the critical thinking skills needed for a degree and not using those skills to figure out that god is a fairy tale.

    Yes I know lots of educated people are religious - I had several christian professors when I was studying mathematics / computer science. That doesn’t make it any less crazy to me.

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      You shouldn’t use “god” as a proper noun. No one being owns the concept of being a god. You’re just legitimising Abrahamism, you’re not helping the atheist cause. Helping Abrahamists erase polytheism doesn’t lead to more atheism, it leads to more Abrahamists.

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      Einstein believed in god.

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        That depends on your definition of the word “god”. Einstein certainly wasn’t an Abrahamist, he was a pantheist. He believed the entire universe was comprised by a divine whole.

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          @Grail@aussie.zone , we do agree on several points.

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