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It's pretty ridiculous that in order to be in the clear I would have to agree with the way the survey was conducted and presented when it obviously causes confu

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  No one suggested you have to agree with the survey’s methodology. It’s one thing to identify specific problems with the survey and quite another thing to cite the survey yourself, then when your argument is rebutted, to argue that there must be something methodologically wrong with the survey.
  • ironmagma 5y ago
    The survey isn’t wrong because it says something I don’t want it to, it’s wrong because it says something other than what it reads as. Elsewhere I said it was either the methodology or the presentation. If they had measured dread and it said something other than I wanted it to, fine. If they hadn’t measured dread but hadn’t presented it as if they had, also fine. But as it is, the survey is misleading because it shows dread as though it was an actual quantity and it’s not. For instance we know that in psychology, you can’t measure unhappiness, invert the numbers, and call it happiness, because happiness and unhappiness are not mutually exclusive.