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Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]
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It is not. A someone who uses stats regularly in his duties I can tell you that pew simply asked a sample of population 'do you trust trump to do the right thing in a world crisis' with the answer yes or no. It asked the respondents nothing more or nothing less. Usually such studies never ask more that 1k to perhaps at most 3k 5k people.
In the uk and Germany the numbers were just as low according to pew. Yet where were the protesters or demonstrators in warsaw? Basically none. Yet they were saying numbers of as high as 100k snowflakes I mean demonstrators when trump comes to Germany.
Furthermore stats are b.s. companies and people manipulate stats all the time by manipulating the sample size or the way a statistic is calculated. If I went to say some Muslim majority special urban zone in France and asked If they believe weed should be legal surely most would say no. However if I conducted same study but using a sample of say young students living in a college town the same question surely more people would be pro legalisation. Hence I can say 67% of people in France don't support/57% do support legalization depending on which sample size I chose to represent the population of France. In the same manner both examples are a samples of a population
If you manipulate the sample whether purposely or not, it will affect your results. So don't believe most polls or statistics unless it states how it was conducted which some sites do describe their methodology.
I'm sure if you were born and raised in poland, had hundreds of polish friends family members acquaintances colleagues business partners etc you wouldn't be blinded by what some talking head tells you to think and could form your own opinions from facts based on the ground. Being polish, living in poland for some time, and having very strong ties with the country through both polish organization here and with having family/friends/property and soon a business in poland, I can confidently say that the majority of poles, meaning at least 51% do like trump and feel he'll be good for poland and Poland's citizens. If you read or heard his speech the whole purpose was common ground - family values, God, free speech, fighting terrorism, nato, etc.
Consider this logic. Poles elected pis which some 37% of the vote, add another 10% to the more nationalistic and right parties, kukiz, etc, and even just a few percent of po voters, say 3% only.. Peole like my grandma that tend to vote po but are traditional but yet open minded and you're already at 50% - more than double the 23% figure of 'poles not liking trump' that you're inferring...
Ask 10 totally random polish people tomorrow in the rynek at the deli wherever if they're happy trump came to poland (assuming you're in poland and polish). If you could record it even better. Id be curious to hesrbtheir answers
Trumps team is too smart to send him to poland if 80% of poles didn't like him. He could've just as easily went to Nigeria where according to pew 58% 'view him to do the right thing in a world conflict' again that doesn't automatically translate to liking him. Many people including myself also thought Obama would probably be a cool head in a world crisis, although he was a total b1tch for not enforcing his red line leading to Assad and putin and the Iranians walking all over him in Syria.. But nonetheless Obama would probably sooner use diplomacy than force while trump is more hotheadex... I am willing to bet though now that trump bombed assads airfield he won't be so quick to using chemical weapons next time
