• Krono@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Because I’m not a Pew Research historian, and I’m not writing a research paper here.

    You’re correct that data from 2024 would be more relevant, but 2026 data is still revealing. The commenter said that an “extremely small minority” cared about the conflict [in 2024].

    Are you suggesting that they are correct, an extremely small minority cared during 2024, but now in 2026 that has ballooned to >50%? That is an extraordinary claim; if you are making such a claim then please provide evidence.

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      23 hours ago

      You don’t need to be a pew research historian to think critically and evaluate a source. You even posted the date. You were most of the way there.

      Are you suggesting that they are correct, an extremely small minority cared during 2024, but now in 2026 that has ballooned to >50%? That is an extraordinary claim; if you are making such a claim then please provide evidence.

      No I am not. I’m pointing out the issue of your data set.

      I doubt it was a small minority, but 53% (or whatever it actually was during the election) of people can somewhat care about an issue without it being their primary voting issue. The people that made it their primary issue was likely a small minority of voters. That’s my take anyhow.

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        19 hours ago

        Up-thread you said:

        you can just look up surveys on whether or not US voters say the Israel-Palestine conflict is important to them, and you’ll find that an extremely small minority of voters say it is

        Now you say “it being their primary voting issue” which is a much stronger assertion. Things can still be important even if there’s something else even more important.

        So where will you be moving the goalposts next?

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          19 hours ago

          I never said that if you look up thread you’ll see that was another user…

          Fish for an argument elsewhere. I just want people to think about their sources a bit

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        23 hours ago

        I doubt it was a small minority

        Great, so you do agree with me. I appreciate it.

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          23 hours ago

          Yes? That doesn’t address the dataset issue which was all I was pointing out.