RDN<p>A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.</p><p><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2413064122" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.</span><span class="invisible">2413064122</span></a> (not open access)</p><p>Preprint at <a href="https://www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_misperceptions.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_</span><span class="invisible">misperceptions.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cognition</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bias</span></a></p>