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80% of people in England support organ donation This is nonsense, because this is the standard fallacy of any survey. You take a sample and extrapolate out to
by forgingahead 5y ago
80% of people in England support organ donation
This is nonsense, because this is the standard fallacy of any survey. You take a sample and extrapolate out to the general population. If your sample is not representative, then the statement is false.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that we should mandate a law whereby nobody can claim "% of X agree to Y" unless it is specifically stated "% of X surveyed out of a sample size of N agree to Y. Here's a link to the methodology and questions."
Organ donation is good and important, but default opt-in is a bad decision, and the reasoning listed for it is worse.
- zimpenfish 5y ago"NHSBT carries out biannual attitudinal surveys. The fourth wave in 2017, involved 1499 interviews carried out via online self-completion between the 10th and 21st of April 2017. In this wave, 81% of people supported organ donation in principle." https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/get-involved/news/hundreds-of-transplants-missed-each-year-because-families-don-t-know-what-relative-wanted/ https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/get-involved/news/hundreds-... But alas, no methodology and questions on that page.
- forgingahead 5y agoPrecisely, this is a bullshit survey with dodgy results. Online self-completion? 1499 participants? If this survey was the basis of this change in law, to be default opt-in, then something very terrible has happened.
- bserge 5y agoSeems rather accurate. Most people will assume "organ donor if you're 100% impossible to revive", if that is the case, might as well help someone else.