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Originally Posted by berryberry
Well if you looked, you would have also noticed that 49% fewer people watched the Tokyo Olympics. The Monmouth University polling only mentioned that 33% less American viewers were interested in the games...
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Not exactly true. One, interest and viewership are two different things, which I made clear earlier in explaining how my interest has remained the same though my viewership has significantly decreased. You're comparing apples and oranges, both may be fruit but they don't taste the same. Two, you can talk about polls all you want, but you have to take them for what they were (what's common knowledge doesn't mean much, when common people misinterpret the information they are given). The thing that makes a polling institute like Monmouth respectable is that like any academic discipline, they lay out their methodology and margin for error. If you want to attack that, by all means, but remember this is also the source that provided the evidence for the other articles. If you're calling the pandemic part BS, what stops me from calling the politics part BS? Nothing. All I'm saying is here is the data. How you feel doesn't change that.
And yes, the one third percentage is significant, but my point from the beginning was that the articles isolated that number to make their point without acknowledging that there were many other factors as well. Also to be clear, it's not a straight third. It's a third of the third that lost interest which would be a ninth, which is still significant.
