They took the average of everyone's percentages and reported that. Averages of percentages are already a bit weird, but I think they didn't sanitize their data at all. So the 5% or so of survey participants who just answer the worst possible answer (100% of Americans are trans, etc) are pulling all the averages towards the middle.
They took the average of everyone's percentages and reported that. Averages of percentages are already a bit weird, but I think they didn't sanitize their data at all. So the 5% or so of survey participants who just answer the worst possible answer (100% of Americans are trans, etc) are pulling all the averages towards the middle.