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Any study that asks people what they would do is basically worthless.

• asdfologist 11y ago
  Source?
  • Brotkrumen 11y ago
    A survey. Or, you know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study
• camgunz 11y ago
  You do it so you can compare what they say they would do to what they actually do. Think Bradley effect. You can survey people and ask them if they'd be less likely to vote for a minority candidate, and then you can look at the voting results. Afterwards, when you do your regression analysis, you can say that statistically speaking, the only explanation for the gap (between people who say race doesn't affect their vote and the votes a minority candidate actually received) is that voters factored in race. But yeah I mean, you can't take what people self-report as evidence. There are tons of problems with that, social desirability bias, etc. etc.