Interesting Teaching Tool for Statistical Analysis
Simon Kuestenmacher
A classic chart to counter the wisdom-of-the-crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population is Muslim, and one in five households earns over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions about reality. Data literacy matters.
Americans Overestimate the Size of Minority Groups and Underestimate the Size of Most Majority Groups
by Michael Keany
on Friday
Interesting Teaching Tool for Statistical Analysis