No…people are being brainwashed unknowingly by TV. Look at the commercials…the actors by race numbers far more closely follow the opinion numbers rather than the actual fact numbers. The commercials are a big influence and the corporate marketing people use them with no restrictions to push their false agenda. Nobody seems to notice, few are complaining.
Yes, of course they are also being brainwashed. But innumeracy also plays a role.
People like you or I, who casually read statists before bedtime, are not affected.
Regards,
TV shows and ads, you think they call it ‘programming by accident?