Try again....all information is taken into account and given a weight as to the influence. I read. Unless you are suggesting that no one outside of the Unites States has had access to this or even the foreigners in the US did not have access to this information.
I think you're the one that needs to try again. Let me get this straight, as an example: you interview 1000 Yanks and 99 percent of them say that the rest of the world think the US is weak. You then interview 1000 foreigners and 99 per cent of them say that the US is strong and gives them the shits and it's like poking a bear with a sore head if you piss them off. Yet your conclusion is that the rest of the world thinks the US is weak??
Try reading what you're saying. I'll restate - it is irrelevant how Americans see America as to whether it is weak or not. The survey was American. It only matters if the rest of the world ACTUALLY think that. And the vast majority of us don't. Trust me...
First show that report all I have read is that you think the US is strong. Beyond that because you deem it of no value does not make it so.
Of course all of the above depends on the premise that the US being "strong" (or viewed as "strong") is a good thing.
Just say-yin'....