“I do not worship what you worship, nor do you worship what I worship. I do not venerate what you venerate, nor do you venerate what I venerate.”
“You will pay dearly, you will pay everything.”
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.”
“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.”
“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
So you can trust the economist’s too. Also “wanting more trees” is something you can measure, it is not a feeling. Asking them if there are enough trees in their city and comparing them with another, unrelated sample taken from a different place instead is throwing numbers around and doesn’t tell you which city has enough trees.
🤣 Really? Even saying “how do you measure perception” has nothing to do with it? Are you sure?
Being in the Privacy community, I’d say microG is the superior solution to have the functionality you need without giving google access to your device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre_War
That’s a pretty good example I’d say. It’s normal practice for most countries out there. I’d even say that as long as you have borders you’ll find someone who wants to push them further.
Exactly, you can’t trust such a survey, no matter the source.
So since when do you consider Brazil not a colony?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
As you can see here, measuring democracy in this other way paints a pretty different scenario.
Why? Because the perception of democracy isn’t physical reality.
There is no “coefficient” of freedom of expression to be coupled with that, so that you can start to try a comparison.
As a random example, that coefficient could be derived by the percentage of population that has been arrested for protesting in the last year.
The wars that waged even after the declaration of independence of Brazil, though.
Few years after there was the Paraguayan war.
I totally agree now Brazil is different, just saying they tried their imperialist moves, just like others.
For the same reason psychology isn’t considered strictly scientific.
And where is the scientific method in all that?
No, that’s not how it works. If you test something thatbis not even scientifically measurable over two different samples you aren’t testing shit. You are just throwing numbers around that don’t correlate to each other.
No, I simply have critical thinking that makes me unable to trust some random numbers.
Rio de la Plata
It’s also a comparison of how much people in those countries feel free of criticizing their government then.
To be sure it isn’t we should include more countries, first of all, with different kinds of governments. That would be a good start at some kind of more objective discussion based on tangible things.
Hey they taught me Brazil was a Portuguese colony, they can’t be bad guys too!!1!
Well then I’ll be happy if you exlpain me how you think the democracy and the perception of democracy can be measured scientifically through different populations in (very few) different countries without it being just a biased bunch of numbers.
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Actually this stuff has been going on TV since I can remember.