I did not really understand the questions at all
I did not really understand there was a connection between categories' percentages of total wealth and the average wealth of individual households

Not being sure of the actual data, I made assumptions concerning total wealth and it's distribution among groups.
I didn't do the math, just guesstimated.
The variance between my answers were not inconsistent enough to be considered a radical difference.
more concerned with % of wealth controlled by the top 10 - 20%
I guess I just didn't figure in the ratio so closely
I did not really understand there was a connection between categories' percentages of total wealth and the average wealth of individual households
I didn't think about the connection between the categories, though they make sense. However my amounts, while not 100% consistent, were rather close (60:1 and 90:1)
I assumed that my answers would be inconsistent because i've always found calculating percentages and ratios to be difficult.
Didn't think logically of how the numbers related. Interesting.
I'm not sure the two have to be consistent.
I guess my estimates were inaccurate too...I didnt think about the connection....if I calculated properly my first ratio was 180:1 and my second was 500:1...I'm not sure how it came to be...maybe I was underestimating the first one or overestimating the second one?
The perception of our culture doesn't mean that its correct, it only means that this is what others believe.
These questions are on a scale I am not accustomed to thinking about in routine daily decisions. Also, I don't know what's included in the calculation of household wealth.
My answers reflect how I see wealth and control
My answers (as far as ration) were pretty close to each other, but I would assume (and this applies to me aslo) that it is easier for people to understand amounts of money instead of percentages and that would lead to inconsistencies
I actually under estimated the ratios for percentage of wealth to be around 85 to 1 and the average wealth to be around 39 to 1.
I'm bad at math. Like, really bad. I honestly don't even know how to figure out the inconsistancy, but I'm making the assumption mine are inconsistant. I thought about this when I was filling it out but realized I didn't know how to make it consistant.
I think the current distribution is very unfair
my answers were inconsistant, but its hard to put it into percentages. it makes it confused with the acutall dollar amount I believe that people should have to have enough money to survive and not stress over having too little.
In an ideal world which was what I was going for on the second question wealth would be distributed more evenly. But I don't think that will ever happen and I'm not sure it should.
I understood the questions, and that there was a connection, but I was striving for utopian wealth distribution.
I'm not entirely sure without going back over the math.
I understood there was a connection I guess my opinion is influenced in such a way that I feel like the top richest people make far more money than they actually do and the bottom people make far less despite sort of understanding the general distribution.
I think my answers were some what consistant i just thought they percentages and amounts were more for each group.You just hear about all these people making milions i am surprised that the average is only 1,700 million
Clearly you are having math issues. I disagree with your assessment.
I understood the questions and I believe they were close to the actual ratios.
I think this is a normal perception. The richest people control most of the nation's wealth
For me the first was 11:1 and the second 15:1. I understood the correlation but did not do the math initially.
It is an abstract concept to think of and hard to calculate quickly! I think our brains have interesting perceptions of numbers and wealth.
I actually thought the poor were much poorer
My answers were not totally consistent. The reason for that is, I did an "independent" estimate for each; I did not take into consideration one estimate when performing the other.
My answers were inconsistent but I did understand the questions. Also 1,500,000 is not ultra rich.
I think my answers were inconsistent in the fact that within the top 20% and the bottom 20%, there are very significant outliers which makes my averages, for which I used the arithmetic mean as a measure, not an accurate representation of the wealth of the group as a whole, which affects the ratios spoken of earlier.
i was just guessing. i wasnt trying to match them up.
I did not perform a mathematical calculation to arrive at an exactly accurate figure. I put what I thought was good estimate offhand.
Definite my answers were inconsistent. There many factors to be considered. It is not black and white.
I typically do not think of percentages and money in this way.
I'm not quite sure I understand, but I believe that there was some inconsistency. My what I thought was 21:1 and current was 10:1.
I tried to answer the question without using calculations to show how i actually thought about the questions.
In the first section, you asked for the totals to add up to 100% while the second allowed any number to be input, thus allowing a margin of error.
My answers were inconsistent, but it didn't occur to me to think about the ratio differences.
I think my numbers in both category's were close. I don't think my ratio was anywhere close to 1,500 to 1 like stated in the above directions. I would have to say though my numbers are a little higher on the household wealth side. For some reason when thinking of avg individual household wealth of the richest 20%, it's easier I think to make an assumption and for me the assumption tends to be of a higher figure. When thinking of the total wealth avg of the richest 20%, for me it's harder to make an assumption and my assumption tends to be lower. I honestly have no idea why my thought process differs in this way when making these assumptions in the two category's.
People dont know what their talking about
These kinds of answers require more than 30 minutes of "reflex" thought.
I believe my answers were more consistent than the average because I considered the connection.
My answers were inconsistent because I was not sure of what the real world percentages actually were.
I found it difficult to convert the amounts using average household wealth.