4% bisexual; 3% gay or lesbian
there are citations in the image though?
I’m here stuck on 65% of Americans own a house. In this economy??
I read something the other day about how there has been a slowdown, but not as much as we think. People are just taking on larger debt and paying a larger cut of their monthly income to buy homes.
I’m not buying that atheist one.
I bet if we’re going by self-report, a lot of people who “aren’t religious” still shy away from the atheism label.
People think that 1/5 americans are trans? Billionaire owned media really does shit in our brains, huh?
That struck me too. 1 in 5 are trans? Who are these people they polled?
It doesn’t surprise me. With how much focus there is on issues like trans athletes in the media and politics, people incorrectly assume the actual number of people “at issue” is in proportion. This is how we get state legislatures spending huge amounts of time creating legislation that will impact like three people.
But like, do they not notice that every fifth person they meet isn’t trans?
Maybe they think all the trans people are in some other part of the country like New York or California, or maybe they think that trans people are so indistinguishable from cis people that anyone they meet could be secretly trans?
That could explain the paranoia that some people have about trans people. And also why people e.g. think that Daniel Radcliffe’s wife is trans because she’s taller than him (even though they have a child together, but then again, maybe these people think that transwomen can get pregnant.).
maybe they think that trans people are so indistinguishable from cis people that anyone they meet could be secretly trans?
Yet they’ll claim “they can always tell” when it comes to yelling at a cis woman trying to use the bathroom.
And in the end they just yell at a menopausal woman who can’t afford hormone replacement therapy.
the people who answer polls
And these are the averages. Which means for every answer that accurately said 1%, someone said 39% (or two people said 30%)
Which means they think if they know two other people, one of them must be trans. Or more likely, that entire cities of “others” (that they’ve never been to) must be trans.
I’d like to know how large their sample size was. I mean, this was yougov, so I expect at least some level of credibility to this, but depending on how large the same size is and how biased your selection is, you can get some really weird numbers.
E.g. do the same study with some old KKK members or with a school class in a black, impoverished neighbourhood or with a group of CEOs and you will get very different results.
I mean, the way the internet talks I thought I was the only straight person left.
Definitely depends on the spaces they exist in, too. I only recently learned I was wrong about how many black people there are in the US. Turns out they’re just “overrepresented” in the media I consume and I’ve lived most of my life in very diverse neighborhoods. Similarly, trans topics overrepresent the amount of trans people in a lot of online spaces and people tend to extrapolate when they only have all the data. I can see why a terminally-online individual would feel like there’s a trans epidemic.
0% of households have an income over 1milion??? I mean I get its low but I believe it exists.
There are 128.45 million households in the US. This graph explicitly round to the nearest whole percent. To have a percentage of 0, there could still be 642,141 households.
I feel like if they are not going to specify and if it exists under 1% should be 1% regardless of rounding. Its just wierd to put it as 0%.
Yeah, I get what you’re saying. Perhaps <1% would have been more clear for that one.
Yeah. I mean there is no figure like it on the graph but if something was like 99.6 it shoudl do >99 and not 100. 0 and 100 should be exceptions to the rounding rule.
Rounding, right? 0.499999 rounds to zero.
The income estimates are interesting.
We’re apparently quite bad at estimating all income levels except who earns $100,000-$500,000 / year.
I think it’s because $100k-$500k is a good range for the “rich” people that you normally interact with. That would cover things like lawyers, surgeons, engineers.
This list is Wild. Like two thirds live in Calif & Texas loool
Also 41% are black.
90% live in CA, TX, and NYC! Sounds right to me I can’t think of a single other large metro area or anything like that.
DO YOU NEED ANY MORE PROOF?? I knew Phoenix was a myth! How can a city built in the most inhospitable place on Earth could ever have 1.5M people living (if you can call it that) in it. The name is clearly a connection to a mythical bird and everyone knows birds aren’t real (anymore, follow my blog). I MEAN who would ever believe that a place that gets 110 °F easily could ever had a hockey team…
#PhoenixIsAMyth #BirdsAreNotReal #TheNumbersDontLie
It is an affront to God
101% of Americans are estimated to be either Democrat or Republican
Thats almost perfect compared to the religion and race estimates. Those add up to like 115% and 195% respectively.
I’m gonna start imagining these answers came from a single guy
Live in NYC could be 5%-6% for greater area. Self reported Atheism can be influenced by wanting to be in an in group. Its more than 3%.
How is driver’s license possession lower than car ownership?
Licenses are cheap, cars can be shared, people tend to get a license before they get a car too. You would expect licenses to be more common than ownership. Also no matter how many cars you own, it only counts as one for this stat, one car owner can own many cars and still be just one car owner.
This is quite a fascinating insight into many things.
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One of which is how far apart the estimations are from reality.
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Fear plays a huge part in most of these estimations. E.g. the world’s leading organized religion is Christianity. And yet, when asked how many people in the US were Muslim, the average estimation in the US was 26%. But the reality is (according to this,) around 1%.
Another example being the percentage of Hispanics living in the US. Reality is closer to 17%, but many believed that there were over 2 times that.
Christianity may ir may not be the largest depending on how you decide who is Christian. Islammay be larger depending on your choices.
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85% own a smartphone, 88% own a car, but only 83% have a driver’s license, that would explain a few things. Is gas cheaper than mobile internet in the US?
Also, Americans means US citizens, Mexico and Canada are conveniently excluded as usual.
I can’t believe how many people read a book in the last year. I assume that means cover to cover and not flipping through something.
This statistic isn’t about how many people read a book, but how many people said they did it.
good point.
Not to mention the definition of book. A children’s book that you read to your kid before bed counts the same as War and Peace.
No, that thing is just wrong. They “interviewed” two groups of 1000 people online who had opted into their “panel”. Either they’re lying about bias, or they were scammed.
The easiest giveaway is the “40% of adults are veterans” number. The average American is well aware that almost half their aquientances are not veterans.
The U.S. Census Bureau did an online poll of 1000 people? Where did you find that information? Even the short description lists 3 sources by name. But yeah people guessing 30% of the population lives in NYC is crazy. Strange guesses
They listed sources for the “True Proportion”, but not the estimates. It doesn’t actually say who they asked for the “Estimated Proportion” figures.
I urge anyone who doubts these results to test them on people they know. Yes, Americans, even those with college degrees, are incomprehensibly ignorant.
This looks like a poll conducted entirely among silicone valley tech bros.
True proportion: Democrats: 42% Republicans: 47%
Did I read this wrong? I’m almost certain there are more registered Democrats than Republicans.
Yeah, those numbers would need to be reviewed. The total percentage of Americans with an affiliation to any party is 47%. This smells like they used voting percentages (somehow?) for their numbers. Democrats do have more registered voters.
I wonder how many are actually independent but vote Democrat. That’s what I’ve done since 2016 because I don’t want to register myself on an “enemies list.”
Wait wat? How could anybody able to walk around or eat soup think 30% of Americans live in New York City?
Also, Gallup poll results estimating number of gay Americans have risen from 5% to 7.6% in the last 5 years. It’s clearly not 3%. This chart is bogus.
33% Atheist
27% Muslim
30% Jewish
58% Christian (41% being Catholic, so that’s about 70% of all Christians)This just proves that Americans do indeed have more people per capita.
