Where Germany?
Germans value privacy to a degree that seems extreme to others. Google maps had a really hard time getting started there, for example. And cash is still widely used because it cannot be traced like card transactions.
Just because it may seem extreme to others doesn’t mean we’re wrong though! And also doesn’t mean it should be that much harder to gather data like this.
the color coding for the amount of books is the wrong way around. The classification with the lowest percentage should also come first on the x-axis. Right now you have to mentally subtract to get the percentages for people that read 10 books.
I’m calling BS on those numbers.
Idk where Eurostat gets It’s info from but I assume that if you go on the street and ask people about reading books, they’ll lie.
70% reading several books, as in from start to finish, not just “read a few pages”, in the past 12 months?
Either it’s bullshit or the sampling is super biased. I’d believe those numbers of certain parts of the population, but in total? Nah.
I’d like to see how the data would’ve been affected if the interviewers had also tested that the people know what books they read and roughly what happened in them.
All right then, Germany, keep your secrets.
