eg, AFAIK Americans overestimate how many LGBT/African-Americans are, and underestimate how common atheism is. So they'd badly misestimate how many would report those. But I bet there are far more surprising ones than those.
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The GSS asks Americans a wide range of questions, everything from free speech opinions to # of sex partners. Results often surprising. But I wonder: what if you asked instead what they think is the most common answer? Which are, collectively, the 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 surprising results?
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Thought prompted by reading about musical anhedonia/colorblindness/aphantasia/anosmia/no-internal-monologues... At this point I expect people with no long-term memory: "What do you mean, you 'see' memories? Isn't 'remembering' when a voice describes it or tells you what to do?"
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One surreal example from https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3yrw2i/i_never_thought_with_language_until_now_this_is/ … - do most kids... not think with language at all?pic.twitter.com/9MAWaPZABr
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Ipsos MORIs Perils of Perceptions gets at this a bit. Annual international poll highlighting biggest misconceptions (eg teenage pregnancy rate, number of immigrants) https://perils.ipsos.com/archive/index.html …
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