• nelson@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    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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      12 minutes ago

      It’s interesting to me that NYC, Jewish, and gay/lesbian all had the same wildly incorrect estimate on average.

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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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      17 hours ago

      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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      17 hours ago

      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.