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

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

household income over $X per what period of time?

I somehow don't find it very plausible that there are many people who believe that 21% of people are transgender, or even 30% gay or lesbian. But I too would have overestimated the number of atheists.

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[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago

Just like their IQ.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

I'm kind of blown away that 88% of Americans have flown on an airplane. If everyone is so broke, how are they affording to fly? And people just don't care about the environmental impact? I've never flown, and I can't imagine I ever will.

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[+] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -11 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I feel like a lot of these numbers, both the "estimated" and "actual" are just outright fucking wrong. Every single person I grew up with was at least some level of gay or bisexual. I get what they're going for, but they're also dramatizing it by picking more extreme numbers. Like I'd bet that only 30% of people are actually, truly cishet, if not even lower.

Then there's the problem of a single number of "estimated", which can only be an average number. Which contains, likely, some juicy demographics data, assuming they actually polled enough people and kept all the information. I'd be curious to see graphs for each and every number presented here.

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Mildly Interesting