...and secondly because this leads to misleading reporting whereby outlets quietly don't mention or gloss over the fact that this is a global figure, and the articles read as though its referring to UK or US opinion only
Posts by Matthew Smith
One thing I really don't like pollsters doing is outputting figures from a multi-country study as a "X% of people globally think Y". Firstly because this number can differ dramatically based on the composition of countries included in the study...
You may also enjoy this classic of the genre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha0V...
We used to be a real country
Alas bsky.app/profile/youg...
Haha, I enjoyed that finding too!
Too late, already working on a much more cursed idea… bsky.app/profile/will...
Great chart! Just in case it helps, the sizing guide half way down this page has helped me with this issue more times than I care to remember instruct.uwo.ca/geog/2240/dr...
Finding out I was ‘wrong’ with my Leader of the Lords entry because I used her name rather than her full title was extremely aggravating
Invisibility is IMO an objectively terrible choice
I’ve been joking that if the media want Musk out they just need to start referring to him as ‘co-president’, and Trump will boot him in short order
Yeah, I must confess, having scoffed at the article I did try and plot a journey along two points of the NYC subway map myself and struggled. But surely with a smartphone telling you which station to get on and which line to use that issue falls away
What I found particularly perplexing is that her travel journalist archive suggests that she primarily goes to Disney World... which has an extensive mass transit system?