No. The average estimate is 26%, which implies at least 26% of the polled population give an estimate of 26% or higher, i.e. a very large gravel of respondents are either very confused or intentionally giving inflated answers.
No? The entire post is about how the average estimate is computed using the arithmetic mean, so you can be skewed by a small % of respondents giving very high estimates. Maybe I’m missing something though.
I was trying to note that the answers are bounded above too, and in this particular case we can infer that at least a quarter of Americans have insane takes here. (Though the math I did was totally wrong.)
No. The average estimate is 26%, which implies at least 26% of the polled population give an estimate of 26% or higher, i.e. a very large gravel of respondents are either very confused or intentionally giving inflated answers.
No? The entire post is about how the average estimate is computed using the arithmetic mean, so you can be skewed by a small % of respondents giving very high estimates. Maybe I’m missing something though.
I was trying to note that the answers are bounded above too, and in this particular case we can infer that at least a quarter of Americans have insane takes here. (Though the math I did was totally wrong.)
That makes sense! (That comment is replying to what seems like a different claim that seems more obviously wrong than yours though.)