• teolan@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Americans believe a single city (New York) represents 30% of the American population?

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      I was kind of curious if this was close to true in any countries with higher urban population densities and the first one I checked was Japan since it has a rural depopulation issue and Tokyo is a pretty populous city and… it was right on the money. Japan’s pop is ~124 million and Tokyo’s is ~ 37 million. So roughly 30% of Japan’s population lives in one city/metro area. Not that this means anything for US population distribution, but I suppose it’s not THAT crazy to think the numbers could be in that ballpark if you weren’t really thinking about it too hard.

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      21 hours ago

      Forget that. They think one out of their first 3 friends they have is gay. Assuming they’re straight that means 50% of their friends are gay. Fuck that means they think 25% of their first 4 friends are trans.

      Math is not their strong point apparently

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        21 hours ago

        TBF if you join random chat groups to meet people you might find abkut that proportion, but not roaming the parks and streets, no.