[HN Gopher] Small subgroups of the population seem much larger t... ___________________________________________________________________ Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans Author : duck Score : 15 points Date : 2022-03-18 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (today.yougov.com) (TXT) w3m dump (today.yougov.com) | car_analogy wrote: | By those estimates, 30% live in California, 30% in Texas, and 30% | in New York City. That leaves 10% for the entire rest of the US. | Maybe the respondents of this poll just didn't care to think for | 5 seconds for each answer, rather than revealing some deep-set | misperceptions? | RajT88 wrote: | There probably were relatively few people who responded with | those exact figures. | | My guess is someone who said 30% of the country lived in CA is | unlikely to say 30% of the country lives in Texas. Probably | there are outliers for each far above 30% that average out in | each category. Would love to see a deeper analysis on how the | responses break down across questions. | AnimalMuppet wrote: | It's not that they don't _think_ (though they don 't). It's | that they don't have any kind of a realistic feel for how big | various groups are. (Which means they would _have_ to think, | instead of just responding by intuition - and they don 't | think.) | inhumanist wrote: | sockaddr wrote: | Some people think 2 out of 10 people are transgender or 2 out of | 10 make over 1 million per household? I'm struck by either the | lack of awareness of the average person or the methodology of | this survey. | blamazon wrote: | Note: YouGov is a platform where internet users are paid small | amounts to complete surveys. Their primary product is market | research and focus group stuff. This link seems like marketing | content to drive clicks/eyeballs to their platform. It is not | exactly an academic study and there is likely to be selection | bias. | | That being said, I do like their more entertaining content - such | as this: "You're doing Italian food all wrong, say Italians." [1] | I'd like to see more data binned as "Acceptable/Not | Acceptable/Divisive to Italians". | | [1]: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles- | reports/2... | [deleted] | twofornone wrote: | I wonder how much of this has to do with the rabid push for | diversity in media, academia, and industry. It would be in line | with the total obliviousness that management seems to have with | respect to the pipeline problem when they set implicit quotas and | indirectly condone the idea that discrimination is the root cause | of unequal representation. | | The same people who treat underrepresentation of minorities as | some carnal sin are hypocritical when it comes to | underrepresentation of the majority, and that's probably more | harmful in the long run than people realize. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-18 23:00 UTC)