Teknevra@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to QueerDefenseFront@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 14 days agoAmericans think 30% of their country are LG, 29% are B and 21% are Tlemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1imageAmericans think 30% of their country are LG, 29% are B and 21% are Tlemmy.blahaj.zoneTeknevra@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to QueerDefenseFront@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
Source: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population
minus-squarecounterfactual@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 days agoAs an econometrician, have you not heard of Kahneman and Tversky? That boggles my mind. Look up round number bias, and regression toward 50%, and maybe read Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
As an econometrician, have you not heard of Kahneman and Tversky? That boggles my mind. Look up round number bias, and regression toward 50%, and maybe read Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.