The articles says that &quot;The responses are representative of the U.S. internet population, with a margin of error within 1.70 percent.&quot; They don&#x27;t give us any information I could use to refute that assertion. So with that, we can assume that the people who reported &lt;$1000 savings were not people with diversified portfolios or people who voluntarily eschew savings accounts because the interest rate is not profitable for them. It&#x27;s astounding what a bubble this communitiy lives in that it could forget that most of the country doesn&#x27;t have a bunch of money lying to around to invest.