Here are the results from last week:
| In response to environmental issues, I have (choose 1+) | |
| Selection | |
| Done nothing |  11 votes |
| Done more research |  32 votes |
| Asked my friends to change their habits |  19 votes |
| Lobbied leaders (poltics, business, etc.) for change |  23 votes |
| Changed my small habits (e.g., eating organic) |  41 votes |
| Changed my big habits (e.g., living in a smaller house) |  22 votes |
| Changed my entire life |  12 votes |
Bottom Line: We all see the environment -- and our role in it -- differently.
Come on, David, you know better than that. Less than 10 % of your readers have responded, and, hell, you have no idea what the > 90 % readers think that have not responded. Plus, of course, you have no idea how truthful those were that did respond.
ReplyDeleteI will do what every academic does:
ReplyDelete1) Assume that respondents are representative.
2) Assume that they told the truth, and the truth they told reflected an accurate recall of what they actually decided -- not some ex-post rationalization of a different action/motivation...
Heroic assumptions, for sure. That's why every academic worries about selection biases in this kind of thing, and that's why every academic worries about hypothetical and other related biases.
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