• Anemasta [any]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah. Those sound like Q-Anon style numbers from the "underground tunnels full of children" era.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

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

      • Anemasta [any]
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        2 years ago

        I love that graph. I guess people's first instinct is to assume that every minority makes up for roughly the third of population.

          • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            This, but kind of unironically. The rate among autistic people is as high as 20% in some studies. On average, it probably hovers around 10%. Once the NT’s can stop being so embarrassed about nonconformity they’ll come around