• half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days 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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      2 days ago

      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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        12 hours ago

        Im very sorry, but I cannot in any sane logical line of reasoning think as to why people would say 1/3 Americans live in New York, even if they just blurted out a random number

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          Stupidity?

          If you’re already stupid and you get asked the question, and then don’t even bother to give it due consideration, it’s entirely plausible you just blurt out a number.

          It does also say these are averages so it’d be interesting to see a scatter plot of all respondents.

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              You can’t even say they NYC is over represented in media because that’s where it’s filmed. A lot of NYC sitcoms are filmed in LA. The reason is just urban narcissism. I’ve outright heard a new yorker say that NYC is the cultural center of America and even tried to credit NYC with popularizing pizza in the US.

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                24 hours ago

                A lot of the companies that produce them are from NYC though. Also Pizza was popularized, in the US, from immigrants in NYC, and while america having a single cultural center isn’t really thing, if you had to pick one A LOT of people would choose it.