A recent article in The Atlantic reported that the 2000 General
Social Survey asked 1,000 White adults to estimate what percentage of the US population
is Black. 95% of White women and 85% of White men overestimated that percentage,
which at the time, was 12%. The overestimation
was stronger for women than men: 69% of women and 49% of men guessed that Blacks
comprised more than 20% of the population.
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