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Americans were asked "What percentage of American adults _____" compared with the true proportion. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My takeaway is that people are pretty good at estimating how many people have children and voted in 2020.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The voting in 2020 thing was probably not a guess or estimation, but a remembered factoid from reporting around the last election.