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You are wrong about what everyone else thinks
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What everyone else thinks
You have a picture of it. What most people believe about immigration, climate, crime, how the country is doing.
That picture has been checked against the actual answers.
Sources
Research on perception gaps and false polarisation: partisans on both sides overestimate how extreme the other side's views are, and how much the other side dislikes them
Why non-random samples mislead: social circles are homophilous, and media and platform attention follows the unusual, leaving the moderate majority under-represented in what people see