I'm suspicious of these results because this is basically exactly what you'd get if a significant proportion of the respondents were choosing randomly-- their answers would be 50 percent on average, which would cause the overall pool of respondents to "overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups" even if people who didn't choose randomly were pretty close to the right answers
I'm suspicious of these results because this is basically exactly what you'd get if a significant proportion of the respondents were choosing randomly-- their answers would be 50 percent on average, which would cause the overall pool of respondents to "overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups" even if people who didn't choose randomly were pretty close to the right answers
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Yeah I think you'd expect random noise to skew the median as well, but less