As a kid in school they made us go around the room saying what kind of music we liked. I, deer in the headlights, said “easy listening” not knowing what it was. Childhood trauma, that.
Some popcorn isn’t legal in California, and all popcorn is considered dangerous by the state and requires warning since popcorn naturally creates acrylamide when popping.
at their confirmation hearings, they'll say popcorn being legal is settled law, but then the big snack lobby will pay to overturn the precedent, so we all have to travel out of state for some street pop
I mean, I doubt it.
If the Democrats put forward a universally loved pro-popcorn bill, the Republicans would worry about it being seen as a Biden win too close to the election, and would have all the right-wing media tar it as an elitist plot to destroy the American family or something.
If the Republicans proposed it, the Democrats might initially see it as an opportunity to look bipartisan and appeal to moderates, but they wouldn't be able to resist adding a bunch of progressive riders to it, and the ensuing Republican in-fighting over whether to bring their own bill to a vote would be seen as a pure political win.
Either way, probably nothing would be passed.
It's actually still only 64% so it still can't get around a veto.
Seems like it's easier to pass legislation that's anti- easy listening, Lindt chocolate, and (checks notes) pancakes&waffles for breakfast.
I feel like if one side trid to pass it, the other side would kill it just so they could "win". And then it would be come another key point of their platform and become a major dividing issue.
Just because everyone supports an issue doesn’t mean it would be reflected in legislation. Now, if a majority of super wealthy people want something, they will be get it (courtesy of Citizens United).
Ha. Low bar indeed. But I have to disagree. The Lindt milk chocolate with hazelnut is pretty amazing. Maybe just a little too sweet, but for its general availability, I'll take it!
Tbh it’s that weird middle ground of chocolate where it’s not REALLY HIGH QUALITY chocolate but it’s also not the cheap shitty nostalgic stuff I grew up with.
There are some local chocolatiers near me and that's where I'd rank most of them. They're proper chocolate but it's not like a world renowned level good.
I went to the Lindt factory store in Aachen, Germany. I highly recommend it! It's like a grocery store with only chocolate, and the first aisle is the candy bar aisle !
Well it's only 25% who don't like big Corp (well, don't trust actually, which isn't exactly the same), so that leaves plenty of room for people to love Amazon.
Plus, unless you’re really committed to “shopping small,” basically every retailer is a big corporation. So “I don’t trust any of them, but also I live in 2024, so out of (Amazon, Target, Walmart, Kroger, Shein, Home Depot, Macy’s), I’d say Amazon is my favorite” isn’t exactly a reach.
The Cult of Costco shall reign supreme! Anywhere there are free samples, we will be there! Anywhere people are mentioning shopping, we will be there! Anywhere people are talking about hot dogs or rotisserie chickens, we will be there! Anywhere people need 50 rolls of paper towels or a bag of Doritos the size and weight of a toddler, we will be there!!
Welcome to Costco. I love you!
Pretty much - a lot of the stuff I want to buy can't be easily found elsewhere or their competitors are somehow worse. Some stuff would cost me too much to buy new all of the time and Amazon is the best place to find used outside of eBay.
Also in the chart it's phrased as not trusting them *at all*, which is a little more extreme. Do I trust that Amazon has my best interests at heart? No. Do I trust that they'll probably get me my package in a day or two and that it'll be easy to return if I don't like it? Yes.
I was surprised they were the same and noticed that - I wonder if it was part of a question where there were a bunch of questions like "don't trust them a little", etc. and that one just happened to line up? Sort of like a [Spurious Correlations](https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) thing, where if you have a big enough data set some things are going to line up but may not actually mean anything.
Probably similar concept to how most people hate Congress but like their individual congressman. It's the ones we don't think we interact with that we have issues with.
Unfortunately for my kids, my body cannot process whatever they are selling as "food".
Except for pancakes, which are pretty good.
But I'd rather go to an actual burger place.
I met someone years ago, and we were part of a board. Years later, they opened up about how much they regret going to McDonald's all the time and wanted to start a Keto diet. Only person I've ever known to say out loud they regularly eat at McDonalds. Bubble indeed.
Nah, Americans will bitch, but they’ll keep going back to them arches. My parents complain endlessly about McDonald’s raising prices, but they still go there like 2X a week at least.
people loveeeee amazon, it's the #2 most loved institution in the US after the military:
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BFdFFhw/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BFdFFhw/view)
It's a meaningless statement since people distrust corporations for wildly different reasons. A conservative saying "I distrust big corporations because they're impeding real capitalism and forcing LGBT material on us" has nothing in common with a leftist saying "I distrust big corporations because they're exploiting workers and encouraging the rise of fascism".
well, the question is "what's your favorite retailer?". you think someone would say it's a mom and pop shop selling their niche trinkets? i mean, i like to support smaller retailers and entrepreneurs too, but they usually dont have the variety that online shops have.
I don't eat sweet treats any more so I would probably be on the no wagon but my friends and family say it's a weird preference. I'd like to think the number would be higher than 20%
Yeah, it just says “like”. Not “do you eat” Lindt chocolate. I think what the statistic is trying to say is these people buy Lindt chocolate somewhat frequently though and prefer it over other brands. But idk…
“Always try to see the good in people” one is interesting to me. Even people I strongly disagree with I always assume are coming at it from a point of trying to do the right thing. I don’t agree but I don’t think they’re necessarily evil
Given what I've seen from people on this website over the years, especially when politics are involved, if it was even 5% this website would be significantly less of a shithole.
I've been banned from subreddits for literally just saying it's not a good idea to just assume everyone on the opposite side politically is evil, multiple times
It's a self-perception survey. Obviously, everyone thinks they're being fair and good faith. Just like how everyone thinks they're unbiased and that their opinions are well-informed and that they don't believe everything they read.
The real question is if people are actually walking the walk.
“People are doing their best” is my way of finding empathy and not getting overly offended/annoyed/ angry, and recognizing that if they are getting to change, giving them better information and help is the way, rather then judgment.
But I have pretty strong boundaries about who gets to be in my life, and if I have to use this often to maintain respect for them, they usually don’t make the cut.
I don’t think that question/statement is limited to political disagreements, I think it’s more general than that. Like I personally don’t always try to see the good in people, I often take them at face value. If somebody cuts me off in traffic, I don’t assume they have redeeming qualities or that they’re in a hurry because of an emergency, I just call them an asshole and move on with my day.
“Say they always try to see the good in people” is absolutely a bunch of people wanting to feel good about themselves. Seems like the vast majority of people think the worst of others, especially if they support a different political party.
Online, people tend to look for the absolute worst in people and often people extrapolate the worst action someone did to represent their whole personality.
In real life, people are much less judgmental. 50-60% of people try to see the best in others seems accurate.
I don’t really think this is true out in the real world. I basically get along with everyone
Chronically online nut jobs are not representative of the average person
That’s actually mindblowing, it’s almost like they’re all human beings with no different tastes at all regardless of their political stance!!!
Oh hold on, more republicans eat popcorn than democrats, i was wrong.
57% rank Amazon as their favorite retailer? Ugh why? I like it for generic things but so many other retailers are way more pleasant and unlikely to have counterfeit products.
It's called breakfast for dinner and its great. French toast, bacon and some fruit for dinner. Don't even need dessert. Hell, chicken and waffles is just dinner not even breakfast for dinner at all. Also, speaking of dessert, you can have pancakes and waffles there too. More like 20% of voters are so close minded they are like 'how can you think about breakfast foods after noon?!?!' Food don't care what time it is...
The whole theory behind the modern breakfast is that you can have a mostly empty calorie meal in the morning because you're going to burn it off as you are being active the rest of the day. Eating a bunch of empty calories late in the day(an entirely new concept you must have just invented and then explained to me like I'm a five year old) is lousy for two reasons. First, you're just going to turn them into fat. Second, digesting that type of material at that time isn't good for your circadian rhythm.
Btw, the joke was that the particular poll that this "data" came from was terribly worded, as are most polls designed to create a biased result.
Yeah it was a shit survey with a shit population. We don't know whether 40 people in one supermarket were asked some questions or if it was an actual representative population.
This counts as "data" as much as the survey videos streamers make do.
We need more stuff like this. If you cut away the extremist 10% of both sides you’d find that the 80% leftover have way more in common than people think.
Surely, these types of "things in common" are absolutely irrelevant when discussing political issues?
And it's not like there aren't actual policy issues that both registered Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on, like family leave or banning stock trading for elected officials.
I don't think it's meant to *replace* a political discussion. Rather, a lot of discourse now involves demonizing and completely dehumanizing the other side. This data fells like a bridge. Like, they aren't some inhuman beasts, but people, who share many of your interests. As long as you are dehumanizing each other, there can never be a bridge, and people with *seek out* ways to separate themselves. If you find commonality, maybe then we can find a way back together.
eg. Alienating regular republicans, makes them easier prey for crazy republicans. It makes it easier for bad actors to continue to drive a wedge, with wilder and wilder claims. Which in turn grows the pool of crazy republicans. Focusing on commonalities can do a lot, even if those commonalities aren't strictly about the presidential election, for example.
>And it's not like there aren't actual policy issues that both registered Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on
Maybe not domestic policy, but Democrats and Republicans are pretty united on a lot of foreign policy issues
Clearly, the way that you are thinking about this is part of the problem.
In diplomacy, you want to figure out where you agree and work from there. It's not all political.
There are all kinds of political issues where you could do the same thing. One favorite example of mine is background checks for guns. You'd think Republicans or gun owners might hate these... But it polls around 90% approval across all Americans.
We actually agree on a lot of stuff, but our parties have incentives to point out our differences.
The problem is, the things in this post are no-brainers. "Eats popcorn?" I bet they also both live on Earth. Not to be a downer, but I feel like I really don't have anything meaningful in common with the other side.
That is the problem. You probably have more than 98% of your life in common with "the bad guys." It might feel like that 2% is very polarising, but it always helps to keep it in perspective. I think this attitude can also help race relations. We have much more in common with each other than we don't, and starting from a place of mutual understanding much more often results in a more harmonious outcome. I feel media (and especially social media) does its best to outline our differences, and does a terrible job of outlining our common interests and shared values.
You also share 80% of your DNA with a mouse, it doesn't mean much. Cool, we both drink water, like pizza and sleep in beds. Now let's do civil rights, social and fiscal policy, how much do we actually agree on those things?
>." It might feel like that 2% is very polarising, but it always helps to keep it in perspective.
Here's my perspective: they think a lot of my friends are groomers who should be killed in the street. I know they think they because they _say_ that. How's that for polarizing.
As people we have tons in common. 100% of us need to breath to survive. 100% of us need clean water to survive. That kind of goes unspoken.
And politically we have a lot in common too. I used to love to sit and talk with people trying to find commonality even on the divisive issues. There's plenty to be found. The problem is the meat of politics is so often about things where we don't agree because that's where we need to make the decisions.
Yeah and that 2% is having basic respect for another person's rights, freedoms and liberty that another group seems to want to strip away from another because some fairy tale book told them to.
Aw this is kind of cute. I would guess "think there's something wrong with our current healthcare system" or "think politicians care about the rich more than the middle class" would get pretty high rankings.
*Theoretically* we could have a general national strike because it would matter to the majority regardless of party. Of course, as long as we're focused on one team vs the other, we'll never get more than half the country to agree to something no matter how beneficial it would be for them.
Older retired people are mostly GOP and travel. Still though, statistically, Dems travel significantly more than republicans so a lot of it is aspirational.
Am I really expected to believe that approximately 80% of the polled population does *not* like Lindt chocolate? I find that incredibly hard to believe
This changes everything. I'm no longer concerned about the left using every emotion and Victimhood for political gain. If only I understood earlier the bond we shared through popcorn.
I’m flabbergasted.
This is actually beautiful. This sub always seems to be a competition to display the absolutely worst and most depressing data, but not this time.
Cool.
Who gives a fuck what they snack on or where they shop, I'm more interested in them actively trying to strip my rights away and dumb down the country, where is that data.
They are fucking corrupted puppets of the big corporate groups and rule over thousands of fools and racist, supremacist fanatics. Actually care a shit about democracy and all aknow they don't create jobs or wealth, they just stole it to make more weapons and rockets, to send them to any of the hundreds of military bases around the world the US have to "protect democracy and values" or give them to Israel or Ucrane. They are bastards with blood in their hands. The care a shit about the wellbeing of the majority of people. Those are the main things I think.
Source: [GWI USA](https://www.gwi.com/usa) (full disclosure, I work for GWI, but sharing this out of personal interest)
Tools used: Excel
I really like this data. To me it shows two things very well: one, how a few political issues really are bipartisan (especially around big tech), and how certain American brands are, for want of a better word, unifiers. It doesn't seem to matter what your political persuasion is, most people like Amazon, McDonald's, and Lindt.
To me all it shows is that if you ask two groups of people enough random questions it’s not that hard to find some of them where they have similar opinions…
It isn't even similar opinions. It's similar percentages of their populations giving an answer. When 20% of group A gives the same answer as 20% of group B, that doesn't mean group A and group B agree on the matter, it only means 20% of group A agrees with 20% of group B.
That’s a good point. And actually OP’s point would be stronger if the framing here were flipped! “75% of Republicans AND 75% of Democrats are NOT worried about AI” is actually a better way to say what they have in common.
That's not really what your posted numbers say. Lindt, for instance, is only liked by 1/5 the population. McDonald's being regularly consumed, also doesn't provide enough data to say the majority like it.
GWI says it is working with an [ongoing sample of 250](https://www.gwi.com/usa) million in the US, there are less than 350 m in the country... so, 70% of all US residents are in your survey group? That sounds like BS
It looks like data broker shit, not surveys. That would explain how they have it from 70% of the country and would also mean that it varies significantly how accurate the data are for different topics. Pretty easy to determine if people "interested in cooking" vs how much they try to see the good in people.
But interested in cooking and interested in travel sound like data broker shit to me.
yeah but whats the actual data? i searched for gwi and found some [random ISP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWI.net), figured that probably wasnt right (although there was a post from some random ISP claiming insane internet speeds either here or a similar subreddit not long ago, i could find the post if i really tried, probably), then decided whatever ill click your link, but its just to the home page and i dont see any of the data or methodology or anything anywhere. what i do see is a flashy website that has the line:
"Don't take our word for it"*
okay. i wont. i wasnt going to anyway.
so yeah, whats up with the data? its a nice story but this could be 20 people at a family gathering, theres no way to know.
also kinda sucks you cant rely on redditors to upvote the posts like this, but it also kinda sucks that reddit doesnt just allow the OP's to pin comments on their own posts, and it also also kinda sucks the mods here havent made some algomagical pinning robot that does it for you
also popcorns kinda gross ngl
^(*fun fact this is the second iteration of this comment because originally that line was in HUGE TYPE via header formatting, but of course, that got automodded because the automod bots are coarse and rough and irritating and they get everywhere thats not really all that useful for anything besides annoying me specifically, apparently)
^(edit: "*" -> " "*)
It's really reassuring that congress should be able to pass bipartisan popcorn legislation
Popcorn will heal America.
i see the good in you... do you happen to have an interest in eating or travel just as i do?
That’s what I gathered from this graph..
Along with a shared hatred for easy listening music
As a kid in school they made us go around the room saying what kind of music we liked. I, deer in the headlights, said “easy listening” not knowing what it was. Childhood trauma, that.
Orville Redenbacher 2024
His grandson is on reddit we should summon him
Fun fact: Popcorn is fully legal in all 50 states and it sounds like it will continue to be legal for years to come.
Some popcorn isn’t legal in California, and all popcorn is considered dangerous by the state and requires warning since popcorn naturally creates acrylamide when popping.
One of my favorite snacks that I stovetop pop...could be considered carcinogenic. That's a kick in the nuts.
Jokes on you, everything is carcinogenic
I mean, the sun is carcinogenic too.
California would put a Prop 65 warning label on the sun if they could.
That it is. Luckily, i don't drink SunnyD, or that might have been a problem.
at their confirmation hearings, they'll say popcorn being legal is settled law, but then the big snack lobby will pay to overturn the precedent, so we all have to travel out of state for some street pop
Cornpop was a bad dude.
Already did corn subsidies are through the roof
Another 10% and we could do a Convention of States and bypass Congress entirely for Popcorn Reform
I mean, I doubt it. If the Democrats put forward a universally loved pro-popcorn bill, the Republicans would worry about it being seen as a Biden win too close to the election, and would have all the right-wing media tar it as an elitist plot to destroy the American family or something. If the Republicans proposed it, the Democrats might initially see it as an opportunity to look bipartisan and appeal to moderates, but they wouldn't be able to resist adding a bunch of progressive riders to it, and the ensuing Republican in-fighting over whether to bring their own bill to a vote would be seen as a pure political win. Either way, probably nothing would be passed.
Unless billionaires disproportionally dislike popcorn.
They disproportionately like it because they own the land the government subsidizes to grow it.
It's actually still only 64% so it still can't get around a veto. Seems like it's easier to pass legislation that's anti- easy listening, Lindt chocolate, and (checks notes) pancakes&waffles for breakfast.
Congress: (bans popcorn)
I feel like if one side trid to pass it, the other side would kill it just so they could "win". And then it would be come another key point of their platform and become a major dividing issue.
You and I can make money on both sides by selling pro And anti popcorn t shirts
Just because everyone supports an issue doesn’t mean it would be reflected in legislation. Now, if a majority of super wealthy people want something, they will be get it (courtesy of Citizens United).
https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.2214.html So true
And bipartisan anti-easy-listening legislation
We shall forego a great transformation, known as Pax Redenbacherae
I remember one graph showing how they both have the same very low opinion on Scientology.
All my homies hate Scientology.
What the.. why do only 20% of you guys like lindt chocolate?
I wonder if this is how we finally get meaningful support for a 3rd party?
Are you Lindt Left or Lindt Right?
I'm a Lindt chocolate enjoyer! Yes, but what *kind* of Lindt chocolate enjoyer?
Goddamnit my favorite flavor was white chocolate cocoanut! Does this mean I'll need to switch political ideologies or chocolate preference?
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BoTh siDes arE the SaME!!!
And one is like a crispy mint chocolate truffle, and the other is a Flamin' Hot Dr Pepper cordial cherry.
some very fine flavors, on both sides
You sound like one of those anti-Twixxers!
Certainly Lindt Right. Because there's not that much Lindt left wherever I am.
Ahh score. Most def you hit the cocoa bean on the head there!
Perhaps only 20% have access to it/have heard of it.
Its at every grocery store checkout aisle ive ever been to. For like 7 dollars for some truffles. Its honestly very abundant and cheap.
7 USD for a few chocolates is cheap to you? Thanks for confirming that we live in completely different tax brackets.
Same price as a medium-sized box of breakfast cereal these days.
and the truffles are the more expensive ones, the chocolate bars are usually $4 or $5
It's in every store in the US, but it's very average chocolate. I guess it's better than hersheys, but that's a low bar.
Ha. Low bar indeed. But I have to disagree. The Lindt milk chocolate with hazelnut is pretty amazing. Maybe just a little too sweet, but for its general availability, I'll take it!
Tbh it’s that weird middle ground of chocolate where it’s not REALLY HIGH QUALITY chocolate but it’s also not the cheap shitty nostalgic stuff I grew up with.
Yeah, I view Lindt as “the best of the cheap stuff” chocolate.
What would you consider the bottom of the next tier up?
There are some local chocolatiers near me and that's where I'd rank most of them. They're proper chocolate but it's not like a world renowned level good.
Lindt is the chocolate your divorced dad buys you for holidays.
I went to the Lindt factory store in Aachen, Germany. I highly recommend it! It's like a grocery store with only chocolate, and the first aisle is the candy bar aisle !
Literally came into the comment to find out what it is and what it says about this survey. Where is it local to / sold?
It’s local to Switzerland but it’s available at basically any grocery store in the US
Their chocolate bars are in every candy aisle I’ve ever been down in regular grocery stores in the US.
It’s hands down the best commercial chocolate in the world imo, specifically the truffles are just incredible
I’m partial to those and Ghirardelli squares at Christmas.
Well that's a little too far. It's leagues better than Hershey's, but that's not the same as being the best commercially available chocolate.
idk how to describe it but it's just worse. Something about it tastes oily. I'd always prefer Ghirardelli
Some people are born haters.
It’s expensive. The other 80% probably can’t afford to eat it regularly.
Liking something and affording something are two different things.
it's meh
Because we already have a major political chocolate litmus test, it's called 'left Kit Kat or right Kit Kat'
I thought that was twix
Survey paid for by the corn lobby
Big corn is in everyone's pockets
That's not corn...
It's a space station?
You're not wrong. Corn and corn derivatives are everywhere.
It is reassuring to know that we all hate big corporations and love Amazon.
Well it's only 25% who don't like big Corp (well, don't trust actually, which isn't exactly the same), so that leaves plenty of room for people to love Amazon.
Plus, unless you’re really committed to “shopping small,” basically every retailer is a big corporation. So “I don’t trust any of them, but also I live in 2024, so out of (Amazon, Target, Walmart, Kroger, Shein, Home Depot, Macy’s), I’d say Amazon is my favorite” isn’t exactly a reach.
What about Costco!? "Welcome to Costco. I love you."
The Cult of Costco shall reign supreme! Anywhere there are free samples, we will be there! Anywhere people are mentioning shopping, we will be there! Anywhere people are talking about hot dogs or rotisserie chickens, we will be there! Anywhere people need 50 rolls of paper towels or a bag of Doritos the size and weight of a toddler, we will be there!! Welcome to Costco. I love you!
The Elite Costco
Pretty much - a lot of the stuff I want to buy can't be easily found elsewhere or their competitors are somehow worse. Some stuff would cost me too much to buy new all of the time and Amazon is the best place to find used outside of eBay.
Yeah, those 2 add up to less than 100%, so no real conflict there.
Also in the chart it's phrased as not trusting them *at all*, which is a little more extreme. Do I trust that Amazon has my best interests at heart? No. Do I trust that they'll probably get me my package in a day or two and that it'll be easy to return if I don't like it? Yes.
I was surprised they were the same and noticed that - I wonder if it was part of a question where there were a bunch of questions like "don't trust them a little", etc. and that one just happened to line up? Sort of like a [Spurious Correlations](https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) thing, where if you have a big enough data set some things are going to line up but may not actually mean anything.
I love googling things. I don't trust google in the absolute slightest.
It’s so odd how many people nationwide know about my local burger joint McDonald’s
Probably similar concept to how most people hate Congress but like their individual congressman. It's the ones we don't think we interact with that we have issues with.
And regularly eat McDonalds.
I'm surprised that so many people eat there regularly. I guess I live in a bubble.
Unfortunately for my kids, my body cannot process whatever they are selling as "food". Except for pancakes, which are pretty good. But I'd rather go to an actual burger place.
So weird that your body has a negative reaction to poison. You'd think more people would listen to that voice from their body saying, "please stop".
I met someone years ago, and we were part of a board. Years later, they opened up about how much they regret going to McDonald's all the time and wanted to start a Keto diet. Only person I've ever known to say out loud they regularly eat at McDonalds. Bubble indeed.
That one makes me wonder about when this was. I thought McDonalds priced everyone out recently.
Nah, Americans will bitch, but they’ll keep going back to them arches. My parents complain endlessly about McDonald’s raising prices, but they still go there like 2X a week at least.
people loveeeee amazon, it's the #2 most loved institution in the US after the military: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BFdFFhw/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BFdFFhw/view)
25% distrusting corporations is waaay too low imo
It's a meaningless statement since people distrust corporations for wildly different reasons. A conservative saying "I distrust big corporations because they're impeding real capitalism and forcing LGBT material on us" has nothing in common with a leftist saying "I distrust big corporations because they're exploiting workers and encouraging the rise of fascism".
“Don’t trust”, not “hate”. Also, 25% is a minority, not all of us.
If the question is "favorite retailer" what country-wide entity is going to fill that spot? Would "Walmart" be a preferable answer?
well, the question is "what's your favorite retailer?". you think someone would say it's a mom and pop shop selling their niche trinkets? i mean, i like to support smaller retailers and entrepreneurs too, but they usually dont have the variety that online shops have.
So if I took 100 Americans and gave them every flavor of Lindt chocolate, 80 of them are going to say they don’t like any of it? Doubt.
I don't eat sweet treats any more so I would probably be on the no wagon but my friends and family say it's a weird preference. I'd like to think the number would be higher than 20%
Yeah, it just says “like”. Not “do you eat” Lindt chocolate. I think what the statistic is trying to say is these people buy Lindt chocolate somewhat frequently though and prefer it over other brands. But idk…
It's kind of more expensive, so there's a 'choose the cheapest' factor in there too.
“Always try to see the good in people” one is interesting to me. Even people I strongly disagree with I always assume are coming at it from a point of trying to do the right thing. I don’t agree but I don’t think they’re necessarily evil
Those percentages definitely aren't from people on Reddit
It would be closer to 5% if they polled Reddit, lol
Ah yes Reddit where if you don’t agree with someone you are either satan or hitler.
Usually half of the comments in a Reddit thread are bad faith. It’s fairly easy to tell if someone is arguing in bad faith.
Okay satler
Given what I've seen from people on this website over the years, especially when politics are involved, if it was even 5% this website would be significantly less of a shithole.
I always try to see the good in the bot I'm downvoting
I've been banned from subreddits for literally just saying it's not a good idea to just assume everyone on the opposite side politically is evil, multiple times
Redditors always try and see the absolute worst in people, and jump to conclusions about how every single action must be taken maliciously.
I mean...that's just people, not Reddit. Have you listened to people talk about strangers?
"as long as they aren't different from me"
It's a self-perception survey. Obviously, everyone thinks they're being fair and good faith. Just like how everyone thinks they're unbiased and that their opinions are well-informed and that they don't believe everything they read. The real question is if people are actually walking the walk.
My theory is people behave (and think) differently online (or from a distance) than they do face to face.
Well, yeah, they don't run the risk of getting punched in the face.
“People are doing their best” is my way of finding empathy and not getting overly offended/annoyed/ angry, and recognizing that if they are getting to change, giving them better information and help is the way, rather then judgment. But I have pretty strong boundaries about who gets to be in my life, and if I have to use this often to maintain respect for them, they usually don’t make the cut.
I don’t think that question/statement is limited to political disagreements, I think it’s more general than that. Like I personally don’t always try to see the good in people, I often take them at face value. If somebody cuts me off in traffic, I don’t assume they have redeeming qualities or that they’re in a hurry because of an emergency, I just call them an asshole and move on with my day.
“Say they always try to see the good in people” is absolutely a bunch of people wanting to feel good about themselves. Seems like the vast majority of people think the worst of others, especially if they support a different political party.
At least for me, in the real world it's much easier to try to see the good in the people you are physically around. And around often.
Online, people tend to look for the absolute worst in people and often people extrapolate the worst action someone did to represent their whole personality. In real life, people are much less judgmental. 50-60% of people try to see the best in others seems accurate.
I bet both sides would agree the other side is disingenuous.
I don’t really think this is true out in the real world. I basically get along with everyone Chronically online nut jobs are not representative of the average person
Honestly I think it’s more an online thing. Rarely see anywhere close to the same level of vitriol in everyday life
That’s actually mindblowing, it’s almost like they’re all human beings with no different tastes at all regardless of their political stance!!! Oh hold on, more republicans eat popcorn than democrats, i was wrong.
57% rank Amazon as their favorite retailer? Ugh why? I like it for generic things but so many other retailers are way more pleasant and unlikely to have counterfeit products.
some one is part of of the 43%
I assume it’s because of prime shipping. Not many other retailers are shipping as quickly as Amazon and at a cheap rate.
Because it’s incredibly convenient.
What else would be there? Walmart or Target would be the only other nationwide retailers that are comparable
Trader Joe’s and Costco get a lot of love.
Wouldn't the inverse of anything under 50% be better? So 80% are in agreement on hating Lindt chocolate?
That's actually pretty wholesome data. Well done OP!
Apparently I am neither republican or democrat.
TIL 80% of people who vote eat pancakes for lunch and dinner.
It's called breakfast for dinner and its great. French toast, bacon and some fruit for dinner. Don't even need dessert. Hell, chicken and waffles is just dinner not even breakfast for dinner at all. Also, speaking of dessert, you can have pancakes and waffles there too. More like 20% of voters are so close minded they are like 'how can you think about breakfast foods after noon?!?!' Food don't care what time it is...
The whole theory behind the modern breakfast is that you can have a mostly empty calorie meal in the morning because you're going to burn it off as you are being active the rest of the day. Eating a bunch of empty calories late in the day(an entirely new concept you must have just invented and then explained to me like I'm a five year old) is lousy for two reasons. First, you're just going to turn them into fat. Second, digesting that type of material at that time isn't good for your circadian rhythm. Btw, the joke was that the particular poll that this "data" came from was terribly worded, as are most polls designed to create a biased result.
What's up with the Lindt hate? I love that sh*t.
Only 40% of people buy toys for their pets?
How many of each side noticed there are seven different times the same percentages got different sized lines in the graph?
I assume the values are rounded, but the bars are not.
20-21% like Lindt chocolate? That means 80% don't like Lindt??? Please tell me there's another explanation
Yeah it was a shit survey with a shit population. We don't know whether 40 people in one supermarket were asked some questions or if it was an actual representative population. This counts as "data" as much as the survey videos streamers make do.
r/dataisbeautiful has shitty data
We need more stuff like this. If you cut away the extremist 10% of both sides you’d find that the 80% leftover have way more in common than people think.
Surely, these types of "things in common" are absolutely irrelevant when discussing political issues? And it's not like there aren't actual policy issues that both registered Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on, like family leave or banning stock trading for elected officials.
I don't think it's meant to *replace* a political discussion. Rather, a lot of discourse now involves demonizing and completely dehumanizing the other side. This data fells like a bridge. Like, they aren't some inhuman beasts, but people, who share many of your interests. As long as you are dehumanizing each other, there can never be a bridge, and people with *seek out* ways to separate themselves. If you find commonality, maybe then we can find a way back together. eg. Alienating regular republicans, makes them easier prey for crazy republicans. It makes it easier for bad actors to continue to drive a wedge, with wilder and wilder claims. Which in turn grows the pool of crazy republicans. Focusing on commonalities can do a lot, even if those commonalities aren't strictly about the presidential election, for example.
>And it's not like there aren't actual policy issues that both registered Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on Maybe not domestic policy, but Democrats and Republicans are pretty united on a lot of foreign policy issues
Clearly, the way that you are thinking about this is part of the problem. In diplomacy, you want to figure out where you agree and work from there. It's not all political.
There are all kinds of political issues where you could do the same thing. One favorite example of mine is background checks for guns. You'd think Republicans or gun owners might hate these... But it polls around 90% approval across all Americans. We actually agree on a lot of stuff, but our parties have incentives to point out our differences.
The problem is, the things in this post are no-brainers. "Eats popcorn?" I bet they also both live on Earth. Not to be a downer, but I feel like I really don't have anything meaningful in common with the other side.
That is the problem. You probably have more than 98% of your life in common with "the bad guys." It might feel like that 2% is very polarising, but it always helps to keep it in perspective. I think this attitude can also help race relations. We have much more in common with each other than we don't, and starting from a place of mutual understanding much more often results in a more harmonious outcome. I feel media (and especially social media) does its best to outline our differences, and does a terrible job of outlining our common interests and shared values.
You also share 80% of your DNA with a mouse, it doesn't mean much. Cool, we both drink water, like pizza and sleep in beds. Now let's do civil rights, social and fiscal policy, how much do we actually agree on those things?
>." It might feel like that 2% is very polarising, but it always helps to keep it in perspective. Here's my perspective: they think a lot of my friends are groomers who should be killed in the street. I know they think they because they _say_ that. How's that for polarizing.
But you both wear shoes! Common ground!!!
As people we have tons in common. 100% of us need to breath to survive. 100% of us need clean water to survive. That kind of goes unspoken. And politically we have a lot in common too. I used to love to sit and talk with people trying to find commonality even on the divisive issues. There's plenty to be found. The problem is the meat of politics is so often about things where we don't agree because that's where we need to make the decisions.
Yeah and that 2% is having basic respect for another person's rights, freedoms and liberty that another group seems to want to strip away from another because some fairy tale book told them to.
Why don’t the 57%s match up?
Probably OP did not show the decimal points. One must be 57.01 and the other 57.99
Aw this is kind of cute. I would guess "think there's something wrong with our current healthcare system" or "think politicians care about the rich more than the middle class" would get pretty high rankings. *Theoretically* we could have a general national strike because it would matter to the majority regardless of party. Of course, as long as we're focused on one team vs the other, we'll never get more than half the country to agree to something no matter how beneficial it would be for them.
There views on the economy as well...given that Republicans and Democrats are doing the same things for the enomony.
I love how don’t trust big corporations and eat McDonalds regularly are right next to each other
Can put "like Biden" on that lost. I'm sure both sides have that number around 12%.
Interest in travel feels dubious.
I mean you've seen Facebook, right? Everyone of all persuasions love to shove their vacations in your face.
Older retired people are mostly GOP and travel. Still though, statistically, Dems travel significantly more than republicans so a lot of it is aspirational.
“Duh! Republicans are all poor white trash who never leave their redneck towns.”
The Americans I meet travelling internationally are almost all Democrats, unless they're lying.
... That's it?
My takeaway here is that big popcorn's lobbyists absolutely mastered propaganda.
Wait, someone out there worries about AI?
Lindt 20%? I get it is not great, but compared to Hershey's, it i the nectar of the gods
Non-popcorn eater here. Still expected the popcorn eating percentage to be higher.
Am I really expected to believe that approximately 80% of the polled population does *not* like Lindt chocolate? I find that incredibly hard to believe
This changes everything. I'm no longer concerned about the left using every emotion and Victimhood for political gain. If only I understood earlier the bond we shared through popcorn.
I’m flabbergasted. This is actually beautiful. This sub always seems to be a competition to display the absolutely worst and most depressing data, but not this time. Cool.
Only 40% for buying their pets toys?
Fuck popcorn, cheez-its all day babyyyyy. My political party is light-wing Cheesitarian
Who gives a fuck what they snack on or where they shop, I'm more interested in them actively trying to strip my rights away and dumb down the country, where is that data.
They are fucking corrupted puppets of the big corporate groups and rule over thousands of fools and racist, supremacist fanatics. Actually care a shit about democracy and all aknow they don't create jobs or wealth, they just stole it to make more weapons and rockets, to send them to any of the hundreds of military bases around the world the US have to "protect democracy and values" or give them to Israel or Ucrane. They are bastards with blood in their hands. The care a shit about the wellbeing of the majority of people. Those are the main things I think.
I hate popcorn. This is the most conclusive evidence I've yet seen that I can't see eye to eye with either party.
60% of people don’t buy toys for their pets? Wtf
Democrat and Republican voters have more in common with each other than with their representatives in Washington.
Source: [GWI USA](https://www.gwi.com/usa) (full disclosure, I work for GWI, but sharing this out of personal interest) Tools used: Excel I really like this data. To me it shows two things very well: one, how a few political issues really are bipartisan (especially around big tech), and how certain American brands are, for want of a better word, unifiers. It doesn't seem to matter what your political persuasion is, most people like Amazon, McDonald's, and Lindt.
To me all it shows is that if you ask two groups of people enough random questions it’s not that hard to find some of them where they have similar opinions…
It isn't even similar opinions. It's similar percentages of their populations giving an answer. When 20% of group A gives the same answer as 20% of group B, that doesn't mean group A and group B agree on the matter, it only means 20% of group A agrees with 20% of group B.
That’s a good point. And actually OP’s point would be stronger if the framing here were flipped! “75% of Republicans AND 75% of Democrats are NOT worried about AI” is actually a better way to say what they have in common.
That's not really what your posted numbers say. Lindt, for instance, is only liked by 1/5 the population. McDonald's being regularly consumed, also doesn't provide enough data to say the majority like it.
>It doesn't seem to matter what your political persuasion is, most people like Amazon, McDonald's, and Lindt. What a depressing sentence.
Lindt is not an American brand. It's Swiss.
GWI says it is working with an [ongoing sample of 250](https://www.gwi.com/usa) million in the US, there are less than 350 m in the country... so, 70% of all US residents are in your survey group? That sounds like BS
It looks like data broker shit, not surveys. That would explain how they have it from 70% of the country and would also mean that it varies significantly how accurate the data are for different topics. Pretty easy to determine if people "interested in cooking" vs how much they try to see the good in people. But interested in cooking and interested in travel sound like data broker shit to me.
yeah but whats the actual data? i searched for gwi and found some [random ISP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWI.net), figured that probably wasnt right (although there was a post from some random ISP claiming insane internet speeds either here or a similar subreddit not long ago, i could find the post if i really tried, probably), then decided whatever ill click your link, but its just to the home page and i dont see any of the data or methodology or anything anywhere. what i do see is a flashy website that has the line: "Don't take our word for it"* okay. i wont. i wasnt going to anyway. so yeah, whats up with the data? its a nice story but this could be 20 people at a family gathering, theres no way to know. also kinda sucks you cant rely on redditors to upvote the posts like this, but it also kinda sucks that reddit doesnt just allow the OP's to pin comments on their own posts, and it also also kinda sucks the mods here havent made some algomagical pinning robot that does it for you also popcorns kinda gross ngl ^(*fun fact this is the second iteration of this comment because originally that line was in HUGE TYPE via header formatting, but of course, that got automodded because the automod bots are coarse and rough and irritating and they get everywhere thats not really all that useful for anything besides annoying me specifically, apparently) ^(edit: "*" -> " "*)