What morons did they ask? Holy shit.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
630 points (97.9% liked)
Mildly Interesting
21589 readers
1497 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
3% Atheists is such a bullshit number. There is a famous Pew poll, where they asked people two questions side by side, "are you an atheist" and "do you believe in any god", and 4% answered no to the first one and something like 20% answered no to the second one.
92 % of the population lives in either California, new York or Texas?
Don't you know? The only city in the USA is either New York or Los Angleas or San Francisco. If its a movie about alien invasion then Washington, DC will also show up.
If its UK, the only city is London.
If its China, the only cities that exist are Beijing or Shanghai.
If its Japan, the only city that exist is Tokyo.
Welcome to Hollywood!
How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.
***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.
they estimated 21% of the population are trans, lol I wish 😂
Yeah that's bananas. I wonder if people saying 1 in 5 people are trans even know a trans person
If 21% of the population was trans, republicans ain't winning elections again.
You underestimate the proportion of dumb people. Trans people can also be dumb.
Imagine thinking 1 in 5 people are trans... Just... This has to be a math understanding issue, right??
Before traveling to California, I had people in my neighborhood plead with me not to go because the whole state is a "disaster area" and that the cities are burning and that there are "drug needles everywhere you walk" and that I was putting my life and those of my loved ones in serious danger. They thought with 100% certainty that Los Angeles was completely on fire from looting and I was going to some kind of Mad Max hellscape. Without exaggeration. They wouldn't listen to reassurance and were genuinely worried.
Granted some of these people were older, they weren't suffering dementia and could still drive. They just park in front of FOX news all day, every day, 24-hours a day swallowing conservative propaganda. They also have algorithmic filtering on their facebook and twitter.
Our perspectives of each others worlds has been damaged beyond repair because of this filtering. We have it on the left/progressive side too, showing us a different reflection of a pandering, emotionally validating worldview. Not as malicious maybe, but we are all trapped.
Well, the survey does not show the distribution of answers. So my guess (it's a guess, not data) is the people living in densely populated areas answered lower numbers, and people living in rural or remote areas ridiculously overestimated the number of trans people based on how much of a big "issue" medias are making of them.
I'd honestly believe the opposite, with people living in liberal cities overestimating. Personallt, in a friend group of about 15, 4 are trans.
Just because you're progressive, doesn't mean you're good at math or understand statistics.
29% Asian? 🤣
I fucking wish
As an Asian American, I don't feel safe going to a red jurisdiction.
Only 4% union members - no wonder the US is so fucked for workers
Funny that more people own a car than have a driver's license.
I unfortunately have to downvote this as this is far too interesting to be mildly interesting.
I grudgingly have to upvote you for being accurate even though the information is creating great discussions.
It was definitely a reluctant downvote from my side as well. But I feel this community is honestly abused and not living up to its name with the amount of "VeryInteresting" content.
This is extremely interesting and illuminating. The kind of thing I’ve been interested in my whole adult life.
I wonder how much of MAGA knows the entire population of illegal immigrants is estimated at a WHOPPING 3% of our population.
It seems the real thing this survey shows is most Americans are fucking dumb.
92% of their population lives in either California, Texas, or NYC, if you do the maths.
Also 101% of the population is a Democrat or a Republican.
Also between 30% gay/lesbian and 29% bisexual, only 41% are straight 🥴
(Ignoring asexuals, etc.)
view more: next ›