Greenland Overwhelmingly Rejects US Accession

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

Literally a "developing country" except for the ultra-rich. https://theconversation.com/us-is-becoming-a-developing-country-on-global-rankings-that-measure-democracy-inequality-190486
- No. "Developing" implies there's some hope for us improving.

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

497 participated in the poll.

wow, thats almost half of the population!
- 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
- At least ist almost one percent of the total population (~57000), from which those not eligible to vote (children, foreigners) need to be substracted.
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".
- Is 500 really big enough to get a proper spread though? Iirc my statistics course (which i don't all that well tbf) you need a pretty significant sample still, would think a few thousand at least
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)

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

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

With our new president? No consent sought...

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

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

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

That 6% should talk to Puerto Rico.

I can't believe there's so many crazy people in Greenland
Why? Does Puerto Rico have oil or mineral wealth? 🖤🖤🖤
- No! Because Greenland would be a similar state like Puerto Rico. Something like a colony of the US without any representation.

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?

As a German, I'd be more than happy to have only 6% of people voting against the interest of the country..
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.
- Yeah, I just want the results of the secondary poll that asks the why. It'd be interesting just to see the real answers.
Everywhere has some Nazis.

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

The poll included 497 participants which is enough to represent the population of 57 000 with a statistical uncertainty between 2 and 4 percent.
- I was joking but thanks for the info :)
6 and 85 have no common factors, so this implies that they must have asked some seals as well.
- what makes you think these numbers are exact? 2÷33 = 6.06% and 28÷33 = 84.84%
  
  so the seals didn't necessarily get a vote but I hope they did

Oh they’re just playing hard to get

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

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

Trump right now.
- more like

The 6% were those maga idiots who visited.

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

!dataisugly

6% got paid* by vance

*payment has only been promised, not yet given lolol

Lol, billionaires were only able to buy a 6% stake in this lie that ANYONE in that country wants to be owned by the US, pretty pathetic for an open and I'm sure easily manipulated poll.

Fake news. The human Cheeto said otherwise and I only believe what he says.

Now poll the Americans. How many of them want to include Greenland?

Nobody cares what the Americans think about this, since they are the Aggressor in this case
- They would be, but the opinion of the common folk lend a lot to where a particular war goes. The United States are not as top-down as the administration and media would have you believe.
  
  The Iraq war had a lot of initial support which dropped off quickly. This war? I don't even see it having that first push support.