I agree with everything you say but I feel that for the Pew Study to have any intellectual weight they'd have had to step beyond euphemism and make all of that explicit to their respondents. Or one might conclude that, at least in this case, Pew are complicit with the lies that are being told.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure of their methodology, but I consider the meaning taken from the proposition of "freedom to pursue life's goals" in itself is one of the fundamental differences in the American vs. European cultural mindset, before you even get to the answer.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do see what you mean but you'd need to drill down in the questioning into "How do you define those freedoms?" or "What do you understand life's goals to mean?" before you could get to meaningful data. I think that this is poor survey design but I agree with your point and I think the survey may have been designed poorly on purpose.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Agreed, this isn't useful.