Seems like a lot of people should ration the mental effort devoted to the USA. Similar to rationing time on social media, a few minutes once a week and not a thought for the rest of your week.
Your analysis is cheering. However, I quibble about the "trends" on those charts. For example, we see Canada at 43% at one point and 46% ten years later. The sample size (at least 1000) supports confidence limits at maybe plus or minus 3%. Thus, it cannot be dismissed that the actual numbers were 46 and 43 (the other order). Polling is getting tougher and tougher with the demise of cell phones and the increasing diversity on the population. If those average opinions reflect the middle of increasingly polarized views, there is another story, deeper than your summary. Forced binary decisions are also problematic. Can't I trust most people but still be careful? Keep up the good fight.
I am entirely in agreement that we do not all live in the USA, that being said I am rather certain that, at least in Canada, trust in government and media is at an all time low.
Seems like a lot of people should ration the mental effort devoted to the USA. Similar to rationing time on social media, a few minutes once a week and not a thought for the rest of your week.
I am going to give this a try.
Your analysis is cheering. However, I quibble about the "trends" on those charts. For example, we see Canada at 43% at one point and 46% ten years later. The sample size (at least 1000) supports confidence limits at maybe plus or minus 3%. Thus, it cannot be dismissed that the actual numbers were 46 and 43 (the other order). Polling is getting tougher and tougher with the demise of cell phones and the increasing diversity on the population. If those average opinions reflect the middle of increasingly polarized views, there is another story, deeper than your summary. Forced binary decisions are also problematic. Can't I trust most people but still be careful? Keep up the good fight.
Really interesting. Thanks.
I am entirely in agreement that we do not all live in the USA, that being said I am rather certain that, at least in Canada, trust in government and media is at an all time low.
So I've written a little thing in response to this post, https://hermanito.substack.com/p/out-of-alignment-aligned
sorry - meant the demise of land lines for cell phones!
A solid piece. Thank you for giving me good food for thought.