Guest post by A. Scott
There has been considerable discussion about the methodology and data regarding the recent paper “Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, C. E. (in press). NASA faked the moon landing – therefore (climate) science is a hoax: An anatomy of the motivated rejection of science” (copy here)
This allegedly peer reviewed paper claims their survey data show climate skeptics are supporters of wild conspiracy theories, such as “NASA faked the moon landing.” The author admits, however, no climate skeptic sites were involved in the survey, that essentially all survey results were obtained thru posting the survey on pro-global warming sites.
Due to the serious and legitimate questions raised, I have recreated the Lewendowsky Survey in an attempt to replicate and create a more robust set of replies, including from skeptic users.
Please click on the Lewandosky Survey Page above and you’ll be presented the survey. This survey replicates the questions, both the paper, and several sites have indicated were in the original survey, including those questions deleted from the survey results.
The only change was to use a 1 to 5 ranking vs. Lewandowsky’s 1 to 4, which several people with experience have noted should improve the overall responses.
Each visit to the survey is tracked. Access is password protected for an additional layer of tracking.
THE PASSWORD FOR THE SURVEY IS “REPLICATE” (case sensitive)
Please only complete and submit once. Also, please respond to each question with the answer that best reflects your position, even though the question may not be perfectly worded.
This survey is built on the Google Doc’s open access platform. Results are collected automatically. As no significant randomization or counterbalancing was performed on the original survey none is applied here. Data collected will be provided upon request.
A. Scott
Don’t you have to hire a psychologist to interpret the results?
(sarc)
Upon conclusion of the survey project the data will be made available. Don’t have a projected date yet.
Each survey is timestamped which should allow viewing by a specific period if so desired.
Dave Ross … thank you for your support.
A now retired Epidemiologist / Psychiatrist / Pediatrics former professor friend of mine once told me: “There is a body of evidence that links smoking to lung cancer, as a cause. There is also a body of evidence that sex is linked to children, as a cause. But the smoking / cancer data is much more convincing. ” So I already knew that one.
On the subject of what “climate scientists 97% of all species thereof believe”: I was able to visit the Mt St Helens eruption site not too long after the event. Specifically, my sister and I were passengers on the very last tourist bus (very dusty) that was allowed up to the closest possible viewing site near the mountain. When that bus returned to the base, that road was closed, and from then on, nobody could get closer than five miles from where that base camp had been, until they eventually got the park facilities built.
The scene at the blast site was of total and complete devastation. The entired area was essentially sterile and devoid of any life form. A couple of years later, when I hiked up to that same region, various plants had started to take hold in that sterile soil, mostly some forms of “fire weeds”.
Life forms eventually figure out how to survive in previously uninhabitable places. As plants reproduced, near the boundaries, some mutations were able to suvive, whereas others couldn’t so they got a living space advantage. So species are often expanding their territory, as niches become available, and fortuitous examples are able to prosper.
In the same way, plants and animals are able to expaqnd their range into fringe areas, and gain a space and resources advantage over mutations not so adaptable.
So scientific observations of plants and insects and other flora and fauna, moving into habitats where they previously were absent IS NOT evidence of climate change; simply ordinary Darwinism acting according to its principles.
And the rebirth of Mt St Helens wild life is stll going on taday, based on my more recent visits.
Assuming these poll questions accurately reflect the original poll questions, the original poll was garbage. Had I ran across such a poll there is a good chance I would have answered the questions with twisted sarcasm; if I had bothered to answer them at all.
Why should one give credence to any poll that asks: “21. The Coca Cola company intentionally changed to an inferior formula …”
Why sure Coca Cola company changed to inferior formula since Coca Cola is in the business of P.O.ing customers for the purpose of losing sales, thus going bankrupt.
Or this wacko question: “32. If I could live my life over I would change almost nothing *”
Why yes, I would not change a thing! I want to live my entire life over exactly as before, never experiencing anything new or different – same old, same old. Learning nothing from my previous mistakes, thus being doomed to repeat them. D’Oh!
CO2’s contribution to the recent warming may be “appreciable”, but given the poor quality of the models for a phenomenon this small, and given the uncertainty in the aerosol data, its contribution may not be “measurable”.
” Jason Calley says:
September 10, 2012 at 7:03 am
@ur momisugly 3×2 says:
September 9, 2012 at 1:25 pm
What a bizarre video you linked to! I honestly wondered if it were a parody of the actual person. Amazing, but not in a good way. 🙁
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Thanks for the recommendation to view the offering.
All I can say is that a Department of Drama somewhere is missing it’s talking head.
marchesarosa … prefer not to relate exact numbers but I would say the response has been “energetic” 😉 … has far exceeded expectation … WUWT’s reach is global and very significant
82. Computers cause pornography.
83. Alcohol causes automobile accidents.
84. Bicycles cause road-rage.
85. Donuts cause police obesity.
86. Twinkies cause murder.
Any idea when we could see some simple prelim bar charts? Maybe even with the scale removed and simply showing relative proportions of the relevant issues?
Thanks