Americans. don't know who they are!?

Earlier this year, [b]YouGov[/b] asked Americans to estimate what percentage of American adults fall under a certain identity group. On average, respondents assumed that
[b]30% of Americans are Jewish,[/b]

[b]27% are Muslim[/b]

[b]21% are transgender[/b] and

[b][i]20% earn more than a million dollars a year.[/i] [/b]

In reality, each of those groups account for
[big] [b]less than 2% of the population[/b].[/big]
[i]YouGov is an international research data and analytics group.[/i]

here is the link

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

🤷‍♂️ If you allow yourself to be entangled in a media bubble that constantly talks about these terms, your perception get screwed. That's why, to know what really is going on, you need to measure. As Kahneman noted in a chapter that deals with the perception on causes of death:

[quote][i]The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. The coverage is itself biased toward novelty and poignancy. The media do not just shape what the public is interested in but are also shaped by it. [b]Editors cannot ignore the public's demands that certain toppics and vieuwpoints receive extensive coverage. Unusual events[/b] (...) [b]attract disproportionate attention and are consequently perceived as less unusual than they really are. The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.[/b]"[/i]

- Daniel Kahneman, [i]Thinking, Fast and slow[/i][/quote]

And it's those feelings and perceptions that are used by politicians [i](and marketeers)[/i] to sell you their stuff.
This is not just an American thing... it's a peoples' thing.