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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups (lemmynsfw.com)

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Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I feel like a lot of these numbers, both the "estimated" and "actual" are just outright fucking wrong. Every single person I grew up with was at least some level of gay or bisexual. I get what they're going for, but they're also dramatizing it by picking more extreme numbers. Like I'd bet that only 30% of people are actually, truly cishet, if not even lower.

Then there's the problem of a single number of "estimated", which can only be an average number. Which contains, likely, some juicy demographics data, assuming they actually polled enough people and kept all the information. I'd be curious to see graphs for each and every number presented here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Have you considered you might actually be in a minority?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

In which way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fact that you think everyone is a little gay to the point that almost no one is straight is a concept well outside the realms of what most would agree with. You and your friend group are the minority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

What a weirdly specific way to phrase that.

But anyway, a quick search popped this up: https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/23914-kinsey-scale-sexuality-millennials-2019-poll

Same-sex attraction is more widely reported for Millennials than older generations. In fact, fewer than half (46%) of Millennials say they are completely heterosexual, according to new research from YouGov RealTime.

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