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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why those in a recent Yougov poll estimated that the U.S. population is 41% black, despite it only being 12%.  Those complaining that our schools do not cover African American history are not familiar with the social studies content for the last 25 years.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population
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PP is being a little disingenuous here. It turns out Americans are absolutely terrible at estimating the population of literally any group. In fact, Black Americans are one of the groups that folks overestimated the least, at only 350%. Compare that to the overestimation of Jewish Americans at 1500%.

[i]"When people’s average perceptions of group sizes are compared to actual population estimates, an intriguing pattern emerges: Americans tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups. This holds for sexual minorities, including the proportion of gays and lesbians (estimate: 30%, true: 3%), bisexuals (estimate: 29%, true: 4%), and people who are transgender (estimate: 21%, true: 0.6%).

It also applies to religious minorities, such as Muslim Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%) and Jewish Americans (estimate: 30%, true: 2%). And we find the same sorts of overestimates for racial and ethnic minorities, such as Native Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%), Asian Americans (estimate: 29%, true: 6%), and Black Americans (estimate: 41%, true: 12%)."[/i][/quote]

Nothing disingenuous at all.  It means that when we spend all of our time trying to make sure that minorities have special months, celebrations, lesson plans and TV shows, it leads to a distortion in people's perceptions.  The same is true of all those other minorities as well.  If we planned to spend 12% of the curriculum on African American heritage, that would be great.[/quote]

Are you even from moco/DC?  Pretty sure you are not. Are you in America right now?  Or some foreign country?[/quote]

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