Probably? The prospect of a unified bloc of peasants makes rulers of the period tremble in a way even a noble revolt could not. But getting the majority of them unified, politically activated and angry was extremely difficult.
Which is really the thing, the chart seems to show the peasants as if they are all politically active, which we know to not be the case in the game.
Maybe that could be useful in some situations, but as far as it has been shown to work, it'd be far more useful to see each pop's political strength proportional to how politically active they are.
Or is that already taken into account when calculating political strength? Genuine question here, would just like to see some clarification.
When the peasants are two thirds of the population? Yes. The idea that peasants as a group should be artificially limited so they are never more politically relevant than the aristocracy no matter how much of the country's population is made up of the peasantry is just weird and arbitrary.
In this time period, more often than not peasants would indeed be a vast majority of the population (2/3 is even on the lower end).
That'd absolutely not mean rulers held their opinion in any particular high regard at all.
And the game does have an organic way to limit political participation, with pops being politically active/inactive depending on literacy among other things.
So it's not that I disagree that peasants should have a huge political strength, but that this info shouldn't be displayed as such in the chart because their de facto strength (and thus the information that is useful to us) will be very much limited by their political awareness.
Edit: also, afaik, political strength has more to do with wealth than anything else, so it makes sense that this is distributed this way, but as I said, their political activity (determining if they actually join an IG) has more to do with literacy and whatnot.
So even if a pop has a lot of P.Str, if they don't have much awareness, a lot of that is going to be wasted, and the "non-wasted" P.Str would be the useful info we'd need in this chart, at least imo.