Here's an example making the rounds, originally from 2022: there is systemic bias in Americans' understanding of US national statistics about all kinds of subgroups:

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/41556-americans-misestimat...

(Although, apparently the poll didn't ask how uncertain they were. The question was, "If you had to guess, what percentage of American adults...")

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fasterik 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I wouldn't be surprised if this were a general cognitive bias having to do with estimating proportions, and nothing to do specifically with minority groups.

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graemep 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The total of the estimates of minority group percentages is well over 100%!

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RugnirViking 2 days ago | parent [-]

do be fair, so is the truth. One can be both transgender and jewish (or a military veteran and live in texas!), theres no contradiction in that. In fact I would expect that most people are a minority in at least one way (note the presence of things like "live in new york" in the minorities there!)

	▲	graemep 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I meant ethnic minorities: "Muslim Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%) and Jewish Americans (estimate: 30%, true: 2%). And we find the same sorts of overestimates for racial and ethnic minorities, such as Native Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%), Asian Americans (estimate: 29%, true: 6%), and Black Americans (estimate: 41%, true: 12%)."

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faeyanpiraat 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did they really estimate that 30% of us adults live in New York?