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Americans were asked "What percentage of American adults _____" compared with the true proportion. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

There are 128.45 million households in the US. This graph explicitly round to the nearest whole percent. To have a percentage of 0, there could still be 642,141 households.

Edit: Actually I misread the stat. Of our 341.9 million people, 1.7 million might belong to a household making above a million dollars to still be approx 0%.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like if they are not going to specify and if it exists under 1% should be 1% regardless of rounding. Its just wierd to put it as 0%.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get what you're saying. Perhaps <1% would have been more clear for that one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah. I mean there is no figure like it on the graph but if something was like 99.6 it shoudl do >99 and not 100. 0 and 100 should be exceptions to the rounding rule.