Barely breaking 50% on your self selected popularity data
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lol using the 35 country median of 31% negative because the average is 35% negative
I can understand using median. Strips away outliers.
But what's the justification for stripping outliers?
hate the us too much
It makes sense in cases where a single billionaire throws out the average income in an area, not, say, to disregard a country of people who were invaded by the US or it's proxy for a chart on "global" opinions.
Outlires? like those whacky pesky australians lol, you can account for outlires without resorting to this lazy, cheap cherry picking. Gotta delude yourself to remain optimistic I guess.
Lol they picked Israel, Turkey, and Tunisia as their representative sample of the middle east. First, one of these things is not like the others. Second, I can only imagine how fucking funny it would look if they actually had a representative sample of Arabic/Islamic countries.
I wonder how it would look like if say, Iraq and Syria were on that list
I asked my friends if I was a cool dude and the majority said I was 
Rare outcome, most friend groups would be like "nah dude you're the worst get lost" and then you'd all laugh and chug another beer or whatever it is neurotypical people do when they hang out
We knock back brewskis and talk about woodworking and Cindy Crawford
I believe the NTs are hanging out at a pastel pink coloured restaurant with very rounded edges drinking malt milkshakes, smoking Lucky Strike asbestos filter cigarettes and listening to radio plays with your chums.
The bad boy of the group wears a black leather jacket.
Before we rumble with another crew, we practice our song and dance number with snapping fingers. As a NT, I can confirm this is what we do when you guys aren't looking.
I remember once reading that Jordan’s approval rate of the USA in 2003 was 1%
Also “Four of five Palestinians disapproved of American leadership, by far the worst perception of the United States globally”
We’re based, westerners aren’t
Oh look the sub that tries to greenwash the realities of climate change so they can have brunch isn't in tune with reality 
The sub is the equivalent of a child hiding under a blanket so the monster doesn't get you.
Except the monsters are real and aren't deterred by blankets, it just hasn't reached you yet.
Its worse than the council in mass effect denying the reapers exist despite seeing saren in the flesh attack the citadel. It will hit the global south horribly and they'll still be in their bubble of "heres how investor's can still win"
The sub name itself is pathetic. It's pathetic enough being a r*dditor. But it's extra pathetic to join a sub called "Optimists unite!" as if you're part of some superhero team. I can only assume their sole form of media consumption is Marvel movies and Marvel mobile games.
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Poland yuck
I'm sad about that tbh, Poland has so much potential, it's produced some of my favourite artistic expressions in the form of music through bands like Riverside or Coma. I hope things will eventually change
Source missing from that post, but it's from the Pew Research Center.
I couldn't find any justification for their picking those countries (maybe they're the only countries that let the Pew Research Center establish any presence). And their methodology seems to suffer similar biases these kinds of wide opinion polls typically do (e.g. if you don't answer the phone or agree to talk to weird strangers you're not counted), which typically skew towards older conservatives who are sitting at home. Sample sizes also leave a lot to be desired.
Not to say this data is entirely inaccurate, but as with like 90% of these studies, they leave so much statistically uncertain that it's borderline meaningless.
Luna oi! (Vietnamese youtuber) did a video on a ""statistic"" by the Pew Research Center saying something like "95% of Vietnamese like capitalism!"
obviously misinformation, but she went ahead and translated the original Vietnamese question in English as something like "do you think the Doi Moi reforms were beneficial to Vietnam?". which like jfc of course they were lol
If it's the YouTuber I'm thinking of her content is great.
yea especially the documentaries she dubs to english
Australians are 60/40? That's hard to believe lmao
Aussies are mad that Americans are more racist than they are.
I mean there's that, but also it's well known to Australians that their government has sold them out to be a client state of the US. On trade, allowing American military bases on the continent, and more.
Nah there's a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.
We generally don't like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It's more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it's posited that America may be a big bully but they're our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)
A lot of Australians "patriots" oppose the yankification of Australia
the number #1 freest bestest richest most democratic amazing melting pot country is cherry-picked to be "generally favorable" at best... how telling
now lets see the methodology.
It is me, Tunisia
The only americans who deserve to feel optimism are the ones eagerly anticipating its downfall. 
I don't believe the Argentinian results, unless shit changed A LOT since 10 years ago that I moved away.
i mean they did very recently consider switching to the US dollar, which means at least at a government standpoint, they trust the US economy over their own at that moment. They used to hate the US in the early 2000's but its more 50/50 i think nowadays.
They're have been addicted to the dollars for years, but every argentinean I knew hated Americans and the US government.
id imagine a certain generation hates the US mainly because of the US stance during the Falkland Wars, as its one of the major times where the US didn't enforce the monroe doctrine(when it typically would have). Of course as time gets farther from that time period that view kinda starts to mull off, sorta like younger generations in mainland asia's opinion of japan.