this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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The actual problem is that if you show this data to the respondents, they wouldn't change their answers.
Everyone here talking about the minority groups when I think the real story is people thinking 1/5 Americans are making $1M/yr.
What are these people smoking? I need some.
bullshit there is no way people believe that 34% of the population is lefthanded.
30% bisexuals. Not even I would have guessed that high.
I would have said 5% and am happy im kinda close
This is one of those things where context being broken down affects a lot. If you ask only GenZ, they respond more like 15% bi, and millennials is somewhere in the ballpark of 5%. I'd be willing to bet the responses used to make the OP are similarly skewed by demographic for the obvious reasons.
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This might just be a study of how our perception tends to disregard or "dilute" extreme numbers. Imagine someone had an accurate feel for these percentages. They might trend towards a less extreme value, producing a similar result.