Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist

It reminds me of that thing where if women talk 30% of the time in mixed gender group conversations the perception is that they are talking more than half of the time (I might be slightly misremembering this, but the general thrust of it is that people, regardless of gender, perceive the percentage of time that women speak in mixed-gender conversations to be higher than it is). Our perception of what is realistic vs what is actually realistic is so warped.