Percentage of Europeans willing to fight a war for their cou

Percentage of Europeans willing to fight a war for their country:

brilliantmaps.com/europe-fight-war/

Oh yeah, I’d fight a gazillion wars to protect my liberal, feminist, multicultural country. Sign me up right now.

But do the percentages that are given in your map represent the reality?

Is this a war to save your country from globalism or what?

Useless survey. Without the context of who you are fighting, where and why, people will answer based on memories of the last war. So for example, the French are at 29% because they don’t want to repeat the shit experience of Vietnam or Algeria. If you ask them if they would fight to repel an invader on French soil, you’re are going to get a much higher number.

Exactly my thoughts too.

The survey isn’t useless.

It is a relatively huge difference whether you ask “will you fight a war for your liberal, feminist, multicultural country?” or just “will you fight a war for your country?” !

All European countries are liberal, feminist and multicultural so the only difference is if it is said explicitly or not.

Sure. But do you think that the question has been asked explicitly? :-k

The percentage of each country can be smaller or larger than those in the map (depending on how explicitly the question has been asked).

But the survey isn’t useless, is it?

What use does it have?

The survey is not useless.

You’re not serious, are you? :angry-banghead:

INFORMATION !

There is useful information and useless information. And that’s before we get into the various types of misinformation.

Information is information. Misinformation is misinformation.

Brilliant. =D>

But what information? Clearly the survey is being interpreted as providing the information, ‘X% of people from Y country would be willing to fight a war for their country’. But that’s not the information that was collected. The information collected was, 'X% of people form Y country would respond positively when asked in peacetime by a pollster about their willingness to go to war for their country". That is a meaningful difference, and one piece of information is clearly more useful than the other.

Methodology matters, Kathrina.

The survey gives no details about who was asked or what they were asked…it’s useless. The surveyors could have asked 100 people who were over 80 years old rather than the population at large to get their approximated results. How many 80 year olds are going to go to war realistically?

What they were asked is crucial too…go to war for their country…by invading a peaceful territory for no reason…is going to get different results than…stopping an invader from overtaking their country.

It’s a useless survey without the details of who was asked and what was asked.

Its a toss up between methodology and specifics. The variance of social composition as an index of who will fight is determined by who or what the enemy is. For example, if the enemy threatens the global community, as foretold in a futuristic war in a war of the worlds scenario, where threat animates from outer space, then the survey would collapse into fewer percentages, since when facing a common enemy, individual percentages per individual country would show diminished percentages per European Country.

As in the past, where the percent of European populations joining the Crusades per total population was lower then if France, or the Holy Roman Empire’s constituting principalities were taken individually.

What matters the most is who is interested in it and for what reason.

If you find it useless, somebody else will find it useful. One shouldn’t always judge this from the people’s view. If the people find it useless, others will find it useful.

Also, information and misinformation are often mixed, This is a kind of methodology too.

And there is always someone who can use information or misinformation, for whatever reason.