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What's their methodology for determining people's "private" opinions?
by aetherson 4y ago
What's their methodology for determining people's "private" opinions?
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoWrong hat. Wrong phrasing. Wrongthink. The method is always the same. It is mildly depressing, but not surprising. Amusingly, or sadly - I did not decide yet - just the other day, I openly declined to discuss Tate for that very reason in public.
- rimunroe 4y agoThis seems completely unrelated to the comment you're responding to. They were asking how the study figured out what the private opinions were, not about what sort of opinions they were hiding.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoI disagree. The question by parent was how it is determined. I merely provided several ways to determine the out-group as determined by the in-group. It is very relevant and, frankly, apt.
- pwinnski 4y agoQ: "How does A determine B?" A: "X doesn't like Y or Z for stupid reasons, so that's a thing that sucks and I don't like it." The levels of irrelevancy compound.
- rimunroe 4y agoNo, it's not. I think the thing they were asking could be rephrased as "How did the researchers figure out what private beliefs people held if those beliefs were private?" How does "Wrong hat. Wrong phrasing. Wrongthink." remotely answer that? Those are labels of particular types of actions/beliefs. They are not explanations of how researchers would find out something that people usually keep secret.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoI re-read it and you are right. I jumped to a conclusion based on what I thought I read. I would edit my comment, but I don't think I can anymore. Thank you ( and frankly apologize for wasting everyone's energy on correcting me on this )!
- tokai 4y agoThey write in the abstract that «The primary methodology of the survey was a list experiment (also known as item count technique), a survey technique designed to maximize respondents’ privacy.» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmatched_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmatched_count