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Vitaliy_Kiselev

Gallup surveys in China and the U.S. reveal Chinese are struggling less than Americans to put food on their tables. Six percent of Chinese in 2011 say there have been times in the past 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy food that they or their family needed, down significantly from 16% in 2008. Over the same period, the percentage of Americans saying they did not have money for food in the previous 12 months more than doubled from 9% in 2008 to 19% in 2011.

Via: http://www.gallup.com/poll/150068/Chinese-Struggling-Less-Americans-Afford-Basics.aspx

brianluce

Yes but what such a survey doesn't show is the amount of food necessary to satisfy and single fat American is enough to feed an entire Chinese village of 900 people.

zcream

EDIT: They talked to 4100 people in China and 1000 in the US. Most probably their Chinese sample set was from one of the major cities and incorporated the booming middle class.
Is 4100 even a reasonable number to extrapolate to a billion people ?
And 1000 to 300 million ?

Vitaliy. There is no information about the sample set in the poll. How many people interviewed - and where. If I pick a 100 unemployed Americans and compare them to a 100 landowners in the Sahara, I will get the same response. Does it mean that people in sub-Saharan africa are better fed than Americans ?
These polls are horseshit.

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