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 e

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.