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> more than half said climate change made them feel "afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and/or guilty." That seems like a bad survey. Why does
by annoyingnoob 5y ago
> more than half said climate change made them feel "afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and/or guilty."
That seems like a bad survey. Why does 'guilty' get 'and/or' while the others do not? Guilty does not belong in the same question with the others. Maybe surveys like this one find what they are looking for because of the way the questions are asked.
- antod 5y agoYou're reading the reporting wrong. It is meant as: afraid and/or sad and/or anxious and/or angry and/or powerless and/or helpless and/or guilty ie the last "and/or" is defining what the commas mean. Just like "a, b, c, and d" or "a, b, c, or d" don't mean "a, b, (c and d)" or "a, b, (c or d)" And that was also a smaller summary list of options than the actual study had.
- annoyingnoob 5y agoI suppose if we throw enough terms into a single question then it applies to everyone. What, exactly, do we learn with a question like that?
- antod 5y agoThe actual report had a histogram comparing the relative results of all those options against each other. The point I'm trying to make is that what you're calling out as a bad question is a summary in 3rd party reporting and not the actual questions in the survey or the report. It's a bit like judging a book based on someone else's book report rather than the book itself.