A few readers have asked whether the surprising ranking is because the polling was pre-October.
Surprisingly not.
“In the case of cataclysmic events happening during a particular year, their effect on the rankings will depend on when the survey took place, and will be muted by the three-year averaging. In the case of the October 7th attack on Israel and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas, the survey in Palestine took place earlier in the year and the Israel survey after the hostage taking but before much of the subsequent warfare.”
(The source is the UN/Gallup report, cited at the bottom of the piece.)
A few readers have asked whether the surprising ranking is because the polling was pre-October.
Surprisingly not.
“In the case of cataclysmic events happening during a particular year, their effect on the rankings will depend on when the survey took place, and will be muted by the three-year averaging. In the case of the October 7th attack on Israel and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas, the survey in Palestine took place earlier in the year and the Israel survey after the hostage taking but before much of the subsequent warfare.”
(The source is the UN/Gallup report, cited at the bottom of the piece.)
New take on dafka for me I always got it as the little conflicts life threw at me by someone else.