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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.nz)
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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[–] brian@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By the looks of it, it's 30% to NYC, 30% to Texas, and 30% to California. So 10% for literally everywhere else in the US. That's gotta be close, right?

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Sitcoms fucked us up

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I’m guessing these same people do know roughly the total population of the US. And are bad at math in general. That would mean 100 million people live in NYC.