▲ 815 ▼ 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 278 comments fedilink hide all child comments Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population
[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children) Feels like they polled an elementary school in Philadelphia permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago Mississippi more like. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children) 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 1 child comment 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children) 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 1 child comment 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. 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 1 child comment 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. 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. permalink fedilink source parent
