Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by aa_is_op on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:39PM
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I generally see one black person per month, but according to internet trolls, my country is flooded with Africans.
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Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by kroolik on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:45PM
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1) IMHO, people use quantifiers like majority, mostly, rarely, etc not because its the absolute truth, but because its their subjective PoV
2) Dont trust everything you read on the internet. A lot of it is skewed by personal biases.
Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by red016 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:53PM
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They’re probably concentrated in your capital’s ethnic enclaves.
Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by d2049 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:52PM
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Just out of curiosity, where do you live?
Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by mattnewton on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:51PM
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Must be a lot of light skinned South African, Algerian and Namibian immigrants then /s
I suspect why this is overestimated has a lot to do with media treatment. Different people than you moving in is scary to people, scary things get engagement, engagement gets eyeballs in front of ads. I don't know how to measure this though because this model is so ubiquitous, where would you find a control?
Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by VoodooJuJu on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:50PM
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Both are true. A lot of those posts you think are from internet trolls are actually real concerns, mostly from poor people, whose neighborhoods the immigrants were sent to, and it's they who are feeling the costs of that.
But who cares what poor people think though, right? lol
Re:Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in ...
by aa_is_op on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:36PM
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They're Russian troll farms. If you go on their profile, that's all they do. Post about immigrants, how the EU is turning people gay, and how Trump will save the world. It's quite simple to tell them. Like who the hell posts 2000 political memes on their profile without taking about anything else. It's so obvious