Also interesting, the estimated percentage of Democrats is bigger than the estimated percentage of Republicans while the true percentage is the other way around.
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the proportion who have at least a high school degree: estimate 65% vs. true 89%
the proportion who have an advanced degree: estimate 37% vs. true 12%
So basically what they guess is ±⅓ has no high school diploma and another ±⅓ has an advanced degree, while in reality ±^1^/~10~ doesn't have a high school diploma and ±^1^/~10~ has an advanced degree.
Meaning while in reality 77% does have a high school degree but not an advanced degree, the estimate is that only 28% does.
*perceiving
They should have provided a crash course in percentages before letting people do the questionable maybe.
YouGov would happily take your bet I guess:
The samples were weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the 2018 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as 2016 and 2020 Presidential votes (or non-votes).
They really should have started selling ⅕ lb burgers to make up for their losses
Interesting how, aside from Isreal, the rest of the countries that now have a more favourable view of the US (India, Nigeria and South-Africa) have an English speaking population because of colonialism. Maybe the propaganda reached them better? Doesn't hold up for Canada, Australia & New Zealand though.
Don't be too quick to judge what previous generations referred to as a lunch break, a replenished body can really help keep the workers functioning! ;)
To be honest, I think all Finland did was translating that saying to Finnish lol
a big major-label-backed advertisement
Not necessarily, but a big major label can obviously see a benefit of having one of their upcomming artists take part in the competition. But if this were really true we'd see much bigger artists joining or the top artists blowing up much more often. Most of them don't end up with that many new fans once the competition is over, I guess because their song is too different from the rest of their music and they end up as one hit wonders like Loreen (the singer of Euphoria). Sometimes they do get a large following at first but within a year or two their new fanbase just slowly disappears. The only group that ever made it big because of Eurovision is ABBA.
Not just their bigger neighbours, but also smaller ascension-candidates like North Macedonia
EU report: North Macedonia, other Western Balkan countries ‘hard it’ by Russian and Chinese influence campaigns, coercive policies - implemented by Serbia and Hungary https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-10-2025-0118_EN.html
Via Euronews: North Macedonia warns the EU of growing Russian influence https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/03/north-macedonia-warns-the-eu-of-growing-russian-influence
Couldn't be a single explanation, and quite likely language isn't the main one indeed. Turkey doesn't have many English speakers as well.
But i do think it matters whether a people is able to consume news from the source because of the language they speak. In Europe for example, where in the east there is quite some (L2) Russian speakers opposed to western european countries, that makes it easier for Russia to spread a favourable view.