Nearly half (46%) globally said that the European Union, United States and Nato were doing too little to assist Ukraine, while 11% said they are doing too much

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, for what it's worth I could concede that a global majority might approve of support for Ukraine according to this data. Looking at raw data from: https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/initiatives/the-copenhagen-democracy-summit/dpi-2023/

That figure may not be accurate however, especially because I can't see that they computed a weighted global total by population. They extrapolate to obtain each "nationally representative result" by taking into account the respondents' age, gender and education to mitigate selection bias. I have my doubts about extrapolating like that, but okay. The main problem is when you check the global total, it's just an unweighted average of all nations. Highlighted in orange: Top - unweighted average of all nations, Bottom - reported figure from the author

Each country has ~1000 respondents, so there isn't a proportional representation of each country based on its population - small countries (mostly imperial core, as it happens) have an outsized effect on the average.

[–] Project_Straylight@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But why post it when you think it's a shit paper

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nearly half (46%) globally said that the European Union, United States and Nato were doing too little to assist Ukraine, while 11% said they are doing too much

I do think the paper is flawed but not useless. I wasn't really the one who posted it though, it's the primary source for this claim in the other article.

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