This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
the proportion who have at least a high school degree: estimate 65% vs. true 89%
the proportion who have an advanced degree: estimate 37% vs. true 12%
So basically what they guess is ±⅓ has no high school diploma and another ±⅓ has an advanced degree, while in reality ±^1^/~10~ doesn't have a high school diploma and ±^1^/~10~ has an advanced degree.
Meaning while in reality 77% does have a high school degree but not an advanced degree, the estimate is that only 28% does.
very very interesting indeed. i wonder what are the effects of this ..
I think this bias happens a bit anywhere where there is a limited range to opinion about, may be the interesting part is where is the tilt point, with the corresponding error estimation...
The actual problem is that if you show this data to the respondents, they wouldn't change their answers.
