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2025 OPINION POLLING GREENLAND

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[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Is there a poll Americans can take? I'd be interested in that too.

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That 6% should talk to Puerto Rico.

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I can't believe there's so many crazy people in Greenland

[–] threshold_dweller@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why? Does Puerto Rico have oil or mineral wealth? πŸ–€πŸ–€πŸ–€

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No! Because Greenland would be a similar state like Puerto Rico. Something like a colony of the US without any representation.

No taxation without representation or something.

Wow, I didn't think he'd be able to crack the single digits!

6% got paid* by vance

*payment has only been promised, not yet given lolol

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, no shit? Life in America is terrible, why would anyone willingly join?

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No. "Developing" implies there's some hope for us improving.

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 4 points 18 hours ago

There's developing, then there's de-veloping

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Developing doesn't mean it's being developed for its citizens

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 6 points 23 hours ago

!dataisugly

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, 60% in favour of EU accession and those are numbers from just before the current escalation and with the fisheries policy still being a giant unsolved issue. Might actually fall under the bus because tough luck getting the parliament to reform it if there's no need and with all those minerals Greenland isn't as keen on fishing, any more.

Greenland used to be part of the EU

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

so 2 voted in favour, 3 withheld, and the remaining 28 citizens voted against?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The poll included 497 participants which is enough to represent the population of 57 000 with a statistical uncertainty between 2 and 4 percent.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

I was joking but thanks for the info :)

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

6 and 85 have no common factors, so this implies that they must have asked some seals as well.

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[–] Valeria@feddit.kyiv.ua 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It is not for you decide Donald Trump, it is the choice of the Greenlandic people. No means no.

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 3 points 18 hours ago

Trump makes it a point to brag about not knowing what "no" means

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

"Your country, my choice."

  • Trump, probably
[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I don't think Trump or his buddies know that, no means no, nor would care even if they did.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When did 'no' or the law ever stop this guy?

The 6% were those maga idiots who visited.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Important note: 497 participated in the poll. Still seems statistically like a good sample and am happy about the result!

Source: https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-majority-of-greenlanders-reject-trump

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

497 participated in the poll.

wow, thats almost half of the population!

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I understand this is a joke and all, but this is about 1% of the population. I don't know how easily Greenlanders have access to the internet and such and how this was distributed, but I actually think 1% is not a bad turnout here

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most Greenlanders have access to the internet. Although the percentage isn't as high as most places in Europe or north America (I assume because of geography).

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine how peaceful life would be if you lived somewhere so remote that the Internet couldn't touch you.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Until the Internet elects a demagogue in the most ridiculously over-armed country on earth and arrives in an attack helicopter

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At least ist almost one percent of the total population (~57000), from which those not eligible to vote (children, foreigners) need to be substracted.

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If the polling organizer did its job correctly and removed bias from their sampling, a beautiful law in statistics has been proven, stating that small-ish samples are representative of the whole population if it follows e.g. a normal distribution. It's called "law of large numbers".

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[–] Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's 1% of their population. For comparison, if you polled Spain's 1% of population, it would have been around 470.000 people (I'm using the 47.000.000 population from memory though)

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this poll is a little early, atleast let the US take Greenland to McDonald's before they can consent to being fucked.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

With our new president? No consent sought...

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm now curious what those 6% were thinking. The no is basically the default. What males those few say they want to join the US?

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A general rule with polls is that you'll never get a result below 5% on a question with 2 options. Those people mostly weren't paying attention, didn't understand the question, didn't care or intentionally chose a contrarian response.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, I just want the results of the secondary poll that asks the why. It'd be interesting just to see the real answers.

[–] Quittenbrot@feddit.org 39 points 1 day ago

As a German, I'd be more than happy to have only 6% of people voting against the interest of the country..

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

Everywhere has some Nazis.

Oh they’re just playing hard to get

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