Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants

That question is a prime example of a bad question for surveying anything. "Too many" is a relative question but it does not say what we should relate it to. I think the amount of people coming here are overwhelming our structures we have for integration. But the solution in my mind can't be to stop people from coming here by force. Either we invest a lot more into integration so we stop being overwhelmed or we invest more into developing peace and prosperity outside of Europe. Answering this question with yes will lump me in with people saying yes because they just flat out don't want outsiders in their country.

A few questions:

• How many respondents where there?
• What was the national break down?
• How were the respondents selected? Was it random?
• Were the questions phased universally across nations?

Without these questions answered, it's hard to make out what to think about this statistic.

As the saying goes: "lies, damned lies, and statistics".

As it is, It would have been more useful if they allowed respondents a selection of choices. Such as: Don't Know/Care, Neutral, About Right and Not Enough.

Maybe a meta study would have made a better subject for an article.