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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

30% bisexuals. Not even I would have guessed that high.

I would have said 5% and am happy im kinda close

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The US has transformed disinformation into an art form at this point.

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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The social media revolution and its consequences...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

We had this term “the Information Age.” I think it’s time we coined the term “the misinformation age”, and it’s super appropriate that they are chronologically adjacent. It perfectly illustrates how humanity turns a useful technology into destructive harmful garbage in almost no time just so the greedy can greed.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

very very interesting indeed. i wonder what are the effects of this ..

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