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Continuing with on the theme of confusionÂ…I was reading this article on Yahoo.
To quote "The world is not with us for the most part," says Andrew Kohut, director of The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, which interviewed more than 5,500 people in nine nations from March 10-17 with a margin of error varying from 3.5 to 5 percentage points. "But they think there will be positive changes in Iraq and the region."
The United States roughly has a current population of 291 million people.
Romania: 21 million.
England: 59 million
Spain: 41 million
This totals 412 million people and this was only four of the nine countries polled. Now if I understand correctly they polled 5,500 people. This is 0.0013349514563106795%. So, does this necessarily constitute "The world is not with us for the most part"? I think I could deal with that part being against me, they certainly don't have numbers on their side.
So, I don't know, what do you think? To me this makes all the numbers thrown around in the article pretty much meaningless and irrelevant.