But whenever I try to read and parse one of these 'what is the current level of popularity of what is happening?', I invariably get an article like this one. The article might be OK, and it might be my reading comprehension skills that fail me. But the gist I get from these articles, almost always sum up to two separate pieces of information I cannot reconcile or get to match/fit with each other.
(1) the copy/main text/body: "XYZ is ever even more unpopular than ever / lowest so far / new record". (2) graphs and numbers: "Disapprove 55%, Approve 45%".
then I shake my head and wonder what is going on. To restate, reiterate and clarify: - from all other signal sources; both the article itself, and my general day-to-day environment, my impression is a clear negative signal of things not going well and not being well received (*). - but whenever I look up this current-approval-rating stuff, I keep seeing numbers akin to 45-55 ???
Which is not what I would expect as the reaction and result of an incompetent führer-wannabe.
Can anyone explain to me, why grand negative headlines appear to translate into "oh no, 47% dropped to 45%".
Seriously wondering, somewhere in Europe not yet on fire.
He went from a barely positive approval rating (+2% approved vs disapproved) to a significant disapproval rating in just 9 months. Assuming the "not sure" group at 5% has been stable, his approval rating dropped from 49 to 39 by the numbers they've shown.
toomuchtodo•2h ago
eqvinox•2h ago
That said I have no idea why this article was posted on HN to begin with. It's not even news.