People tend to overestimate racial tensions between races other than their own. For instance, two thirds of black Americans said blacks and Hispanics get along well; 60 percent of Hispanics agreed. But only 43 percent of whites thought so. "When it is your group involved, you judge based on your own … experiences," says Gallup's Lydia Saad. "You're drawing on a different set of information," not just the strife that makes news.
