Brandon Schollenberger writes:
As you’re aware, Stephan Lewandowsky has written several papers claiming to have found certain traits amongst global warming skeptics. I believe his methodology is fundamentally flawed. I believe a flaw present in his methodology is also present in the work of many others.
To test my belief, I’m seeking participants for a short survey (13 questions). The questions are designed specifically to test a key aspect of Lewandowsky’s methodology. The results won’t be published in any scientific journal, but I’ll do a writeup on them once the survey is closed and share it online.
The Poll follows.
Please feel free to participate and/or share the survey with anyone you’d like:
http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=jblyccj8lluam18284546
Note: the poll is just one page, and after submitting you’ll get a “make your own survey” ad page.
i’m curious how many other people misread the bigfoot question 😉
Did this at the Bishop’s.
Obviously, I won’t do it again.
But how could you know if I did?
Done…
BTW I think “yes” is a valid response to the Bigfoot question… for anyone who watched any film about it 🙂
M Courtney, unless you actively attempt to game the survey, odds are you won’t be able to take the survey multiple times. The survey uses cookies to prevent it. It’s easy enough to cheat by deleting the cookie, but you’d have to go out of your way to. Otherwise, the only duplicates will come from people using multiple browsers/devices (or maybe re-visiting between Private mode sessions).
Done.
However, I suspect that once alarmist get wind of this, that they will descend upon it in their multitudes and fill it in deliberately to make it look like climate realists (who believe that the earth has warmed slightly over the last century, though it is no longer warming currently) look like the total fruitcakes and lunatics that the alarmists believe them to be.
Expect lots of returns that state that they do not believe in global warming, but strongly approve of alien abduction, paedophilia and all the other negative answers available in that poll.
Nylo, it’s funny you say that. I had an exchange on Twitter with someone who made the same point. That’s not how I think most people would interpret the question, but that’s part of the fun of analyzing survey results. Unless you have empirical evidence, you really can’t know which interpretation people used.
Of course, believing you’ve seen Bigfoot on tape still requires you believe he’s real!
I was only presented with 3 questions, after which I clicked “Next Page” and got the ad for making your own survey.
What if I had no mother? I call a petri dish mom. 😉
Ken Hall, I’ve considered that possibility. Each survey response is given with a timestamp (but no IP address). That means response patterns change over time, it’ll be detectable.
It’ll certainly be interesting to watch for!
I don’t know how to answer the bigfoot question. I have big feet. So, I’ve never seen one, they only seem to come in pairs. Hey! I see everything twice! There’s some sort of catch to this…
Same as JJ–only 3 questions. I’m using chrome.
First question says “Global warming is a real” Any chance you could correct that? If so, maybe you could also provide a time scale (i.e., since 1800), since we’ve cooled compared to the first few thousand years of the Holocene.
Brandon
The first question states “Global warming is [b]A[/b] real.” Was is supposed to just be “…is real.”? Or is there some other philosophical higher meaning there?
Global warming is A real farce.
Global warming is A real pain in the a**.
Global warming is A real money making machine.
Obviously I don’t know how to BOLD properly…
And I don’t proofread…is= it
JJ, the three questions you refer to are the only questions in the survey. Each question has multiple parts, and there is a total of 13 parts. I instinctively see each individual query as a question of its own, but it’s become apparent other people view it differently. For what it’s worth, KwikSurveys interprets it as only three questions too.
As for the exit page, that’s an unfortunate aspect of KwikSurvey I didn’t know about until after I made the survey. It doesn’t let you customize your exit page unless you’re a paying customer. That didn’t seem like enough of a reason to purchase an account with them. This survey was for fun and to test a simple point, and I’m not funded by a university or anything. I think it’s sufficient for casual conversations on blogs.
Obviously I’d do things differently if this was intended to be published in a scientific journal.
As Ken Hall said above. That is a warmist trait. What have personal traits to do with science anyway?
I believethat you are, by debating Lewandosky’s results, you are implicity accepting Lewandosky’s belief that such things have any relevance for scientific endeavors. Lewandosky’s whole approch is nothing more than an ad hominem attack, clothed in pseudo-psychological mumbo jumbo, at
that. Don’t follow him down that road. It’s a journey to nowhere.
A participé.
Une Bonne et Heureuse Année à toutes et à tous.
done.
I took the bigfoot question as having personally seen it.
so I said no.
Lance Wallace, changing any wording of the survey would require dumping all the data collected so far. I could save it to my hard drive first, but even if I did, I’m not comfortable changing a question midway through.
That said, you and Eric should know typos like that are known to catch people off guard. The surprise of it makes them pay more attention. I’ll leave it to you to guess whether the attention getting mistake in the first question was intentional or not 😛
Answered.
That should screw up the survey.
You forgot to mention:
1. The Trilateral Commision
2. The Iluminati
3. JFK Killed by the CIA
4. 9/11 was staged by the CIA.
5. The Moon Landings were faked
6. And the biggest whopper of all, Ohbombus is a Kenyan, Moslem, Incompetant or Robot controlled by Soros!
The racism one I put neutral because mostly it’s a farce used by leftists to end arguments; Conversely, where it actually exists the people who are deemed racist are usually under attack by some other faction, so whether it is bad or not is wholly dependent on who, why, where, what, and how.
I was tempted to say yes for bigfoot – as I’ve seen them many times on tv etc.
Also its hard not to answer facetiously just for the fun of it! (Though I tried not to) Sorry – that’s just the way my mind works!
Max Hugoson: