A fascinating poll on real misinformation
A US research company asked Americans how many unarmed black men are killed by the Police each year. The actual number is around 10 a year (which is of course still too high) but they asked people if the number was 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 or more than 10,000. So each is different by an exponent.
So how many Americans thought the actual number of annual shootings of unarmed black men by Police was 1,000 or more. They break it down by political orientation.
- Very liberal: 40%
- Liberal: 28%
- Moderate: 25%
- Conservative: 18%
- Very conservative: 16%
Now this is the proportion who over-estimate deaths by a factor of 100!