Spyke
lemmy.world

Yeah, no shit? Life in America is terrible, why would anyone willingly join?

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feddit.org

497 participated in the poll.

wow, thats almost half of the population!

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Vinny_93reply
lemmy.world

I understand this is a joke and all, but this is about 1% of the population. I don't know how easily Greenlanders have access to the internet and such and how this was distributed, but I actually think 1% is not a bad turnout here

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lemmy.world

Most Greenlanders have access to the internet. Although the percentage isn't as high as most places in Europe or north America (I assume because of geography).

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P00ptartreply
lemmy.world

Imagine how peaceful life would be if you lived somewhere so remote that the Internet couldn't touch you.

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Until the Internet elects a demagogue in the most ridiculously over-armed country on earth and arrives in an attack helicopter

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At least ist almost one percent of the total population (~57000), from which those not eligible to vote (children, foreigners) need to be substracted.

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thedarkflyreply
feddit.nl

If the polling organizer did its job correctly and removed bias from their sampling, a beautiful law in statistics has been proven, stating that small-ish samples are representative of the whole population if it follows e.g. a normal distribution. It's called "law of large numbers".

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BearGunreply
ttrpg.network

Is 500 really big enough to get a proper spread though? Iirc my statistics course (which i don't all that well tbf) you need a pretty significant sample still, would think a few thousand at least

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barsoapreply
lemm.ee

497 more than 1% of Greenland's voting population. For larger populations the rule of thumb is generally 1000 people for a good poll, 500 for a decent one.

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That's 1% of their population. For comparison, if you polled Spain's 1% of population, it would have been around 470.000 people (I'm using the 47.000.000 population from memory though)

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lemm.ee

Meanwhile, 60% in favour of EU accession and those are numbers from just before the current escalation and with the fisheries policy still being a giant unsolved issue. Might actually fall under the bus because tough luck getting the parliament to reform it if there's no need and with all those minerals Greenland isn't as keen on fishing, any more.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I think this poll is a little early, atleast let the US take Greenland to McDonald's before they can consent to being fucked.

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feddit.kyiv.ua

It is not for you decide Donald Trump, it is the choice of the Greenlandic people. No means no.

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I don't think Trump or his buddies know that, no means no, nor would care even if they did.

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lemmings.world

I'm now curious what those 6% were thinking. The no is basically the default. What males those few say they want to join the US?

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As a German, I'd be more than happy to have only 6% of people voting against the interest of the country..

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Yeah, I just want the results of the secondary poll that asks the why. It'd be interesting just to see the real answers.

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sh.itjust.works

No! Because Greenland would be a similar state like Puerto Rico. Something like a colony of the US without any representation.

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bstixreply
feddit.dk

The poll included 497 participants which is enough to represent the population of 57 000 with a statistical uncertainty between 2 and 4 percent.

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socsareply
piefed.social

6 and 85 have no common factors, so this implies that they must have asked some seals as well.

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albert180reply
discuss.tchncs.de

Nobody cares what the Americans think about this, since they are the Aggressor in this case

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They would be, but the opinion of the common folk lend a lot to where a particular war goes. The United States are not as top-down as the administration and media would have you believe.

The Iraq war had a lot of initial support which dropped off quickly. This war? I don't even see it having that first push support.

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