Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes āfrustrating,ā system.
Why would people want to live under an authoritarianās thumb? Itās rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for securityāreal or perceivedāand a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the groupāespecially if it is the ārightā group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, āHeās not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.ā
That says 0.51% of adults, and under 18 rates are higher.
1/1200 is 0.83%
0.32% is close enough for an āaboutā on social media, if we add in under 18 it would get closer, but Iām not doing that much math.
Neither is exactly 1/1200 tho
1/1200 is .000833ā¦ So .08%. Thatās not how the calculations for finding X in Y people work.
And the source I linked specifically says 1.6 million people in the US aged 13+ identify as trans, which is 0.48% of the 333.3 million people in the US.
We were both wrong, itās approximately 1 in 208 people. 333,300,000 / 1,600,000 = ~208.