Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days agoHow would you measure how comprehensively democratic a country is, if not by asking people how well it functions in getting across the will of the majority?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I suspect I would start by setting out to write a report that attempts to answer that question, instead of one like this, which makes it very clear that it’s not a document which answers that question.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
This pretty clearly answers how people feel about their systems, and considering democracy is will of the majority, it makes sense to begin with how people feel about their country in doing so.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That seems spurious, and I’d like to see some evidence supporting that there’s validity in that position before I entertained the idea that it’s a valid metric with which one could evaluate ‘democracy’.
Perhaps you could even do a study on that subject?
Regardless of you trying to shift the scope here, the study emphatically does not support the conclusion you attempted to use it to draw. You can ruminate on the philosophical cud that is opinion polling all you like, but that was not the object of the study, and it’s fundamentally dishonest to present it like it supports your claims.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I pretty clearly disagree with how you’re reading this.