What morons did they ask? Holy shit.
92 % of the population lives in either California, new York or Texas?
How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.
***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.
they estimated 21% of the population are trans, lol I wish 😂
Yeah that’s bananas. I wonder if people saying 1 in 5 people are trans even know a trans person
If 21% of the population was trans, republicans ain’t winning elections again.
Imagine thinking 1 in 5 people are trans… Just… This has to be a math understanding issue, right??
Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it’s a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big “issue” medias are making of them.
29% Asian? 🤣
I fucking wish
As an Asian American, I don’t feel safe going to a red jurisdiction.
Only 4% union members - no wonder the US is so fucked for workers
Funny that more people own a car than have a driver’s license.
I unfortunately have to downvote this as this is far too interesting to be mildly interesting.
This is extremely interesting and illuminating. The kind of thing I’ve been interested in my whole adult life.
I wonder how much of MAGA knows the entire population of illegal immigrants is estimated at a WHOPPING 3% of our population.
It seems the real thing this survey shows is most Americans are fucking dumb.
92% of their population lives in either California, Texas, or NYC, if you do the maths.
Also 101% of the population is a Democrat or a Republican.
Also between 30% gay/lesbian and 29% bisexual, only 41% are straight 🥴
(Ignoring asexuals, etc.)
Just like their IQ.
Honestly the most shocking number to me is that 65% of Americans own a house. How can 62% have a household income “over $50,000” and 65% own a house? Is it all old people?
A lot of older generations own a house pretty much
It’s easier to put into perspective when you look at how much cheaper houses were before they got bought up by private equity
Very clear chart, nice.
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?
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.
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.
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
Maybe because NYC(and LA) are stupidly over represented in the media.
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.
2000 Americans polled in this study*
