Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong?

BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Holy shit, I am totally guilty of this.

For those who haven’t yet read the article, the idea is that people interpret “80% of people prefer Pepsi Max to Coke” as “Pepsi Max is 80% yummier than Coke”, when in reality most of that 80% only slightly prefers Pepsi.

Basically a strong difference in proportion of people who prefer one option to another does not necessarily imply a strong difference in the average opinion between the two.

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