Yes and no, if you pardon the âYes, Ministerâ expression.
To explain it a bit, before 2008-2009 and the economic crisis, if you dig up the statistics, Greeks were on the top of the âsatisfaction with the EUâ polls. A few years later we were at the very bottom.
Being satisfied with the EU at that point was âthe cool thing to sayâ, so they said it.
Fast forward some years, the âcool thing to sayâ was to loudly proclaim that you are not satisfied, so they said it.
There was no rational process or real belief in either answers, so it was just a âfashionable lieâ.
Now it is fashionable to be mistrustful about anything (with the advent of the internet, the country is now filled with âAgent Mulderâ and âAgent Scullyâ wannabes 
), so they lean towards that in polls.
Same thing goes for book reading. It is not cool to say âIâve not been near a book since a teacher in highschool hit me on the head with one of those thingsâ so they say they read, quite a bit. Maybe they count supermarket brochures as books? Who knows?
Same thing goes for sex. Oh, boy ⊠we once outscored BRAZIL in polls on sex-related matters. 
When you claim to outscore Brazil on sex and youâve got one of the biggest problems of falling birth rates, you know you are a colossal liar of epic proportions 
At the end of the day the ancient adage âbeware of Greeks even when bearing giftsâ is true.
In case people say âpolls are inaccurateâ I have an example of actual elections where the whole country is participating.
In 25 June 2015 there was a referendum held about one of the economic âdealsâ we had to go through with EU and our debtors. 61.31% voted NO and the government went ahead and implemented YES anyway (The British government should have taken notes ) and afterwards went to elections.
Youâd expect that the population would be furious for being tricked and would have voted the government and everyone else that was in favour of âYESâ out of parliament, right?
WRONG!
September 2015 election results? Government gets re-elected with 36.34% and all the âYESâ parties together in the parliament added up to more than 80%, even though a few months ago 61.31% had voted on the exact opposite position. Neat eh? 
Now this is a bit more socio-economically complex than âsaying whatever is cool in the pollsâ and it might be boring for everyone if I get to explain this, but the bottom line is that no number, no percentage, no âpopular opinionâ that comes out of this country can be taken seriously or, at least, without a ton of salt and a lot of analysis on whether it is actually true or not.
