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blsea [12.9K]
4 years ago
9

In recent months, national media spent a lot of time on stories about gays and lesbians. Yesterday, you conducted a poll asking

people to estimate what percent of Americans are gay and lesbian. They results indicate that people estimated 23% are gay and lesbian but actually only about 4.1% identify as gay or lesbian. Why did people overestimate this percent?
Social Studies
2 answers:
kolezko [41]4 years ago
8 0

Answer: Availability heuristic

Explanation:

Availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

lawyer [7]4 years ago
6 0

Answer:

because not a lot of people are open about being part of the LGBTQIA+ community

Explanation:

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