Just Post
Just post something π
Live in NYC could be 5%-6% for greater area. Self reported Atheism can be influenced by wanting to be in an in group. Its more than 3%.
How is driver's license possession lower than car ownership?
People think that 1/5 americans are trans? Billionaire owned media really does shit in our brains, huh?
That struck me too. 1 in 5 are trans? Who are these people they polled?
And these are the averages. Which means for every answer that accurately said 1%, someone said 39% (or two people said 30%)
Which means they think if they know two other people, one of them must be trans. Or more likely, that entire cities of "others" (that they've never been to) must be trans.
Definitely depends on the spaces they exist in, too. I only recently learned I was wrong about how many black people there are in the US. Turns out they're just "overrepresented" in the media I consume and I've lived most of my life in very diverse neighborhoods. Similarly, trans topics overrepresent the amount of trans people in a lot of online spaces and people tend to extrapolate when they only have all the data. I can see why a terminally-online individual would feel like there's a trans epidemic.
Wait, atheism is that low in the US?? 38.9% of Australians indicated no religion at the last census, I knew we had more but never expected a whole order of magnitude difference!
That number is wrong.
28% of people in the US don't have a religion. People here just don't like the word atheist.
Not having a religion =/= atheist in surveys like this.
Believing there is no god is still a belief. Not having a religion means you dont subscribe to any belief
OP was talking about non-religiously identifying Australians, and comparing it to Americans who identify specifically with the term atheist, I was providing a more apt number.
Atheism still has a stigma associated with it here. Not sure now, but there were surveys less than 10 years ago saying that Americans were less likely to vote for an atheist than for a convicted felon (and this was before Trump!). Other polls often use the term "Nones" to refer to people who don't affiliate with a major religion, but that tends to include atheists, agnostics, areligious people, and some others thrown in there.
There's a good explainer here: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/
That poll has 17% of Nones as atheist, which would be about 5% of the population, just above the 3% in the chart from OP. Although I bet part of the "agnostics" are agnostic atheists, but don't use the term. That being said, Pew also has this page: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/age-race-education-and-other-demographic-traits-of-us-religious-groups/#age
That shows that people under 50 are way different. 73% atheist of 69% None is about 50%, which means that a full half of Americans under 50 identify as atheist. So, a BIG generational gap.
I mean yeah, I don't identify with the term atheist because it ended up shifting meaning to anti-theist on the internet in my opinion. I guess I just conflated it with "no religion" in my head, which is what the Australian statistic is.
This list is Wild. Like two thirds live in Calif & Texas loool
Also 41% are black.
90% live in CA, TX, and NYC! Sounds right to me I can't think of a single other large metro area or anything like that.
Wow you guys need better media and media literacy, these are wild levels of disinformation
Nearly half the population apparently having been in the military, 1 in 5 trans, 1 in 3 gay or lesbian. Do these people imagine entire battalions of non cishet people?
This is quite a fascinating insight into many things.
-
One of which is how far apart the estimations are from reality.
-
Fear plays a huge part in most of these estimations. E.g. the world's leading organized religion is Christianity. And yet, when asked how many people in the US were Muslim, the average estimation in the US was 26%. But the reality is (according to this,) around 1%.
Another example being the percentage of Hispanics living in the US. Reality is closer to 17%, but many believed that there were over 2 times that.
Christianity may ir may not be the largest depending on how you decide who is Christian. Islammay be larger depending on your choices.
85% own a smartphone, 88% own a car, but only 83% have a driver's license, that would explain a few things. Is gas cheaper than mobile internet in the US?
Also, Americans means US citizens, Mexico and Canada are conveniently excluded as usual.
88% own a car, but only 83% have a driver's license
I'm guessing that I still "own" a 1985 Suburban, a 1986 Cavalier, and a 1989 S10. I still have the Titles to each of these vehicles, but the vehicles themselves were scrapped decades ago.
I can't believe how many people read a book in the last year. I assume that means cover to cover and not flipping through something.
This statistic isn't about how many people read a book, but how many people said they did it.
Not to mention the definition of book. A children's book that you read to your kid before bed counts the same as War and Peace.
0% of households have an income over 1milion??? I mean I get its low but I believe it exists.
The top 1% isnβt near 1 million
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%.
Rounding, right? 0.499999 rounds to zero.
101% of Americans are estimated to be either Democrat or Republican
Thats almost perfect compared to the religion and race estimates. Those add up to like 115% and 195% respectively.
I refuse to believe this
True proportion: Democrats: 42% Republicans: 47%
Did I read this wrong? Iβm almost certain there are more registered Democrats than Republicans.
The one that really got me was 12% black. I would have said 20% or so. The sexual, religion and race questions are wild! 30% Jewish?! Guess they're all in NYC. π
I'm here stuck on 65% of Americans own a house. In this economy??
I read something the other day about how there has been a slowdown, but not as much as we think. People are just taking on larger debt and paying a larger cut of their monthly income to buy homes.