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Thanks for compiling this data. Where did you get it from?

Send your thanks to chatgpt :)

Here are the sources-

  US: US Census Bureau
  UK: Office for National Statistics
  South Africa: Statistics South Africa
  India: Census of India
  China: National Bureau of Statistics of China
  Peru: National Institute of Statistics and Informatics

Wait what

With wolfram alpha, or another plugin, I hope? You posted insanely detailed statistics and cited an LLM solo

Yeah i literally just said "give me the specific stats about ethnic makeup of urban/rural and how theyve changed in a few different countries from 1990-2020. what is your source for this data. put the data in a text-based table format"

I've used chatgpt in a research context numerous times and I always ask for sources and double check the sources. When asked for numbers most of the time it makes them up, when citing sources it also makes up titles of papers and DOIs. It's highly likely the information you got is entirely false

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