Screenshot of intermediate results from poll, showing that, at the time, 23% of people said they grew up poor according to the definition in the poll.

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   Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 20:48:08 JST Dan Luu

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   2. The numbers have bounced around a bit, but it's been fairly consistent that ~20% of people marked themselves as having grown up starvation-level poor, which should not be true in a poll that's representative of the U.S., let alone one of a population of people on Mastodon who are mostly programmers.

   In surveys, you'll see 20% of some disadvantaged populations with some food insecurity, but that's less a lower level of poverty than this poll's definition of regular starvation or equivalent.