• downpunxx@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Reading habits in Europe isn’t the same thing as Reading habits in parts of Europe, last time I checked Great Britain was part of Europe, though no longer part of the “European Union”, this graph is titled incorrectly, which is the first thing one considers when then considering any data below it. This is 100% a complete fail.

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      3 months ago

      This gets brought up every time with Eurostat. The UK no longer shares data with Eurostat, but other non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway do. (also Germany is missing here, for some reason)

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
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        3 months ago

        Yes, having Norway and Switzerland included there shows that it’s more about the UK not willing to share than the EU refusing to include them in Eurostat

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        3 months ago

        It took me 10 seconds of Googling to see that Eurostat is funded through the EU.

        I mean, with the EU average it was kinda obvious that it would either be from the EU, or from someone too stupid to know that the EU isn’t Europe - but that’s why we check.