• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    How tf car-brained USAinians in a car-dependant society assume only half the population owns a car?

    Or that a fifth/a quarter of the country is Muslim/transgender/living on a million per year?
    Or that NY is a third of the USA?

    Is this data just bs?

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        14 hours ago

        Ok, yes, but the average answer was 50% (edit: 66%), so half of the people assumed less than 50%.

        I should have clarified that by ‘is data bullshit’ I meant it as the surveys work/overall effort - eg unclear questions or not making sure (actively or passively) if folk actually understood the question. It could be something stupid as a matter unclear ‘owns’ or ‘doesn’t own’, so people were answering in two ways ‘90% own’ and ‘10% don’t own’ … of witch the average is then the bs 50% bcs it’s the and metric.
        This is just one example of seemingly the simplest things going wrong in surveys & statisticians not having the data/balls to detect issues from datasets or rule the data in question out.

        Asking people questions is hard. They are people after all.

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      Or that 90% have high school degree. Either the education is terrible or the stats are bs.

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          14 hours ago

          Clearly 24%(=89%-65%) of the population with a highschool degree give the impression they don’t have it.

          Tbh that seems fair, perhaps a bit low :D.