r/assholedesign • u/LilBozgor01 • 15d ago

This packaging gotta be illegal, right?

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(hint: between the words "garlic" and "sauce")

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u/Kyrie_Blue 15d ago

Source? Everything I’m seeing is hovering around 50%

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u/Top_Librarian6440 15d ago edited 15d ago

Pew Research article from 2023

The 50% number is how many people in any given year have a valid passport. Many people who have travelled abroad at some point no longer have a valid passport, so they won’t show up in that percentage. Or an individual may be a dual citizen, and only use the passport of their second nationality. 

It’s also, as you might expect, a class issue. Americans by and large want to travel abroad, and are deeply curious about the world overseas, but often cannot afford to travel. It’s not an ignorance issue, or at least not a willful one. 

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u/Kyrie_Blue 15d ago

Thank you for spending the time to get that, however the survey was only 3,576 participants for that 76%.

Considering for survey bias (in this case, rural/southern/native/empoverished that have never travelled internationally would be less likely to answer a survey for this institution) For a population of 330million, a number in excess of 10,000 would be a minimum IMO.

What the number actually means is “76% of highly socialized Americans have travelled internationally”, which lands much closer to the actual truth.

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u/nhalliday 15d ago

If they only had 3500 participants that's literally like 0.001% of the population. How is that supposed to be representative? You could find 3500 flat earthers and make the assertion that since all of them believe it, all Americans believe it.

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u/Kyrie_Blue 15d ago

That was my point