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

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 0 points 3 weeks ago

the proportion who have at least a high school degree: estimate 65% vs. true 89%

the proportion who have an advanced degree: estimate 37% vs. true 12%

So basically what they guess is ±⅓ has no high school diploma and another ±⅓ has an advanced degree, while in reality ±^1^/~10~ doesn't have a high school diploma and ±^1^/~10~ has an advanced degree.

Meaning while in reality 77% does have a high school degree but not an advanced degree, the estimate is that only 28% does.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

Only 85% of the population owns a smartphone, I thought for sure it would be higher than that

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[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today -1 points 3 weeks ago

My 3 year old has a college degree? Dang! No wonder I can't understand half the shit he says.

[+] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -7 points 3 weeks ago

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