Friday, August 8, 2025

How accurate are our perceptions of crime?

From: Views on Crime Will Turn Me into the Joker–and Might Be Harming Democrats More Than Some Think by mikethemadbiologist

A couple weeks ago, this poll by YouGov asked “Since 1990, would you say murder rates in U.S. cities have…?” The answer:


By the way, the correct answer is “Decreased a lot”, but even if we lump the ‘decreased’ answers together, it’s really bad–three out of four people got it wrong; if we grade more strictly, only one out eleven knew the correct answer.
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