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2025 OPINION POLLING GREENLAND

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[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No. "Developing" implies there's some hope for us improving.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Developing doesn't mean it's being developed for its citizens

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

There's developing, then there's de-veloping

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Important note: 497 participated in the poll. Still seems statistically like a good sample and am happy about the result!

Source: https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-majority-of-greenlanders-reject-trump

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

497 participated in the poll.

wow, thats almost half of the population!

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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).

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

well i said ALMOST, didn't I?!

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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".

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

2000 is the standard max. 500 is probably good enough for most things.

[–] Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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)

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

With our new president? No consent sought...

[–] Valeria@feddit.kyiv.ua 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Your country, my choice."

  • Trump, probably
[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Trump makes it a point to brag about not knowing what "no" means

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Quittenbrot@feddit.org 39 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A general rule with polls is that you'll never get a result below 5% on a question with 2 options. Those people mostly weren't paying attention, didn't understand the question, didn't care or intentionally chose a contrarian response.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Everywhere has some Nazis.

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That 6% should talk to Puerto Rico.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I can't believe there's so many crazy people in Greenland

[–] threshold_dweller@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why? Does Puerto Rico have oil or mineral wealth? πŸ–€πŸ–€πŸ–€

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

No taxation without representation or something.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

so 2 voted in favour, 3 withheld, and the remaining 28 citizens voted against?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

I was joking but thanks for the info :)

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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Oh they’re just playing hard to get

Wow, I didn't think he'd be able to crack the single digits!

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When did 'no' or the law ever stop this guy?

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[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

!dataisugly

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Is there a poll Americans can take? I'd be interested in that too.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The 6% were those maga idiots who visited.

6% got paid* by vance

*payment has only been promised, not yet given lolol

[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fake news. The human Cheeto said otherwise and I only believe what he says.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Lol, billionaires were only able to buy a 6% stake in this lie that ANYONE in that country wants to be owned by the US, pretty pathetic for an open and I'm sure easily manipulated poll.

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