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Do not expect the unexpected | Ted Sanders

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The personal website of Ted Sanders

If you call up a random American and ask them to guess the demographics of America, here is what they’ll tell you, on average: ~33% of Americans are black1,2 (~3x the actual of ~13%3) ~25% of Americans are gay or lesbian4 (~5x the actual of 5%5) ~15% of Americans are Muslim (~15x the actual of 1%)6,7 ~11% of Americans are Jewish 2 (~10x the actual of ~1%-2%8) If you ask what Americans are likely to die of, they’ll tell you, on average: ~8% of Americans are killed by murder (actual is ~0.7%)9 ~4% of Americans are killed by STIs (actual is ~0.3%)9 ~4% of Americans are killed by…

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