Can You Guess Americans
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Better Than Americans Can? A short quiz on the percentage of Americans who do, own or are various things. Ranking is based on you vs. the rest of the US. I did relatively terribly and I am still coming to terms with some hard truths. I was off by 15 points per group. This is better than the median American (off by 17) but worse than the median PerThirtySix user (off by 9)
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