▲ 838 ▼ Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago* by Wulri@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world 284 comments fedilink hide all child comments Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population
[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago Mississippi more like. permalink fedilink source parent [+] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Feels like they polled an elementary school in Jersey You mean the state with the highest ranked Pre-K-12 by US News and World Report? That Jersey? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12 Errr, I mean "Lol Jersey sucks amirite?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Not even relevant. Kids are stupid about scope at this age regardless of location. Jersey would explain the perspective disproportion of the NYC stat, which is a major outlier in the set while fitting the rest of the patterns well. Fa get abo dit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago* How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation. Seems relevant to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Feels like they polled an elementary school in Jersey You mean the state with the highest ranked Pre-K-12 by US News and World Report? That Jersey? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12 Errr, I mean "Lol Jersey sucks amirite?" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Not even relevant. Kids are stupid about scope at this age regardless of location. Jersey would explain the perspective disproportion of the NYC stat, which is a major outlier in the set while fitting the rest of the patterns well. Fa get abo dit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago* How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation. Seems relevant to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Not even relevant. Kids are stupid about scope at this age regardless of location. Jersey would explain the perspective disproportion of the NYC stat, which is a major outlier in the set while fitting the rest of the patterns well. Fa get abo dit permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago* How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation. Seems relevant to me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago* How was that not relevant? lol... you made a joke about kids in Jersey elementary schools being dumb, and I showed the stat that says it's actually #1 in the nation. Seems relevant to me. permalink fedilink source parent
