Greenland Overwhelmingly Rejects US Accession

2025 OPINION POLLING GREENLAND

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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
  
  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).
  
  Imagine how peaceful life would be if you lived somewhere so remote that the Internet couldn't touch you.
  
  Until the Internet elects a demagogue in the most ridiculously over-armed country on earth and arrives in an attack helicopter
  
  well i said ALMOST, didn't I?!
  
  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
  
  497 more than 1% of Greenland's voting population. For larger populations the rule of thumb is generally 1000 people for a good poll, 500 for a decent one.
  
  Fair enough, thanks.
  
  2000 is the standard max. 500 is probably good enough for most things.
- 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)

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