Wishful sinful thinking?
Headline. yougov, 3/22/2022
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%).
Continuous stream of drool
Bloomberg, 11/8/2024
Hinton’s prediction was based on Trump’s abilities as an entertainer and the way he’s inspired faith that he can lower the price of a cup of coffee and fatten Americans’ pocketbooks.
Some of the faith in the new president-elect and his economic promises comes from a sense that he “tells it like it is” — that he speaks with blunt honesty, even as he insists he won the 2020 election and propagates numerous other fictions. This paradox has confused pundits, pollsters and other observers since Trump’s rise to political prominence over a decade ago. That he even got a chance to run for president a third time — despite losing in 2020 and despite many of his hand-picked candidates losing in 2022 — raises questions about our vulnerability to cults of personality. [emphasis added]
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