• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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      A new opinion poll, carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, was published on January 10

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        It’s a Qatari institution with clear bias. Just because it has “Arab” in the name doesn’t mean it represents all arabs. There are many institutions in the middle east with “arab” in the title, they don’t represent us all.

        Just a reminder that Aljazeera is a Qatari state owned channels, and Qatar represented Palestine in the opening for Asia’s cup just yesterday.

        But yea… good journalism.

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            8000 respondents, given that they’re a fair sample size from each arab-majority country (which I doubt) do not represent what 464 million arabs think.

            That’s 0.0001724138% of the population.

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              your comment shows us you don’t know how polls are made

              why not look it up first and only then comment (if relevant)

              • McDropout@lemmy.world
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                Maybe include that it is a poll of “~5700 arabs by Qatari institutions” in the title, not “67% of arabs”.

                Misleading title. Sorry to see individuals like you on Lemmy rather than Reddit.

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                10 months ago

                Just like the polls done by those who “know stats” who predicted a clinton win in 2016.

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      10 months ago

      How is the really of an opinion poll painting them as a monolith? It’s literally saying they have different opinions.

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      10 months ago

      This doesn’t seem any different from polling Western countries and writing a title about what the Western world thinks. Doesn’t make me think of a monolith.

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      In that case, I’m sure you’d have an issue with a publication writing “99% of Europeans think Hitler was bad”, despite it being a bunch of different nations.

      Or, is it “eh white is white” for you?