This statistic shows the results of a survey, conducted across the United States in April 2014, on whether waterboarding - which is defined as "inducing a sense of drowning by pouring water on someone with a bag over their face" - can be considered a form of torture. The results were then sorted by age group. 81 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 years said they considered waterboarding a form of torture.
Do you think that waterboarding is torture?
(by age group)
Source does not specify the type of survey used.
The source posed the question as follows: "Do you think that waterboarding, that is inducing a sense of drowning by pouring water on someone with a bag over their face, is torture?"
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YouGov. (May 6, 2014). Do you think that waterboarding is torture? (by age group) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 03, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/298813/united-states-public-waterboarding-induce-sense-drowning-torture-age/
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YouGov. (2014). Do you think that waterboarding is torture? (by age group). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 03, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/298813/united-states-public-waterboarding-induce-sense-drowning-torture-age/
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Do you think that waterboarding is torture? (by age group) [Graph], YouGov, May 6, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/298813/united-states-public-waterboarding-induce-sense-drowning-torture-age/
