Excellent comments, as always. You have characterized it perfectly, he is actually measuring dissent. The climate change question is the give-away, if you give a yes answer then you conform with the narrative, and if you give anything other than a yes (in this case a forced binary choice) he says you are misinformed, but on a complex question that really requires nuance, and your answer is no you are really just dissenting from the narrative. This is the problem with complex scientific questions. The simple fact based questions are OK. The actual list of questions, is in my view, poorly composed and he is simply not measuring what he thinks he is measuring.
Indeed. Personally I generally support the AGW hypothesis based on data to date and supporting theory but I don’t agree with all the biased attribution studies and reports (i.e. climate change causes cataracts etc - I just made that one up, but I am sure it exists) and there is so much uncertainty in all the models that I remain highly skeptical of alarmism- and I don’t trust the competence or motivation of a large amount of the climate change crisis advocates.
Excellent comments, as always. You have characterized it perfectly, he is actually measuring dissent. The climate change question is the give-away, if you give a yes answer then you conform with the narrative, and if you give anything other than a yes (in this case a forced binary choice) he says you are misinformed, but on a complex question that really requires nuance, and your answer is no you are really just dissenting from the narrative. This is the problem with complex scientific questions. The simple fact based questions are OK. The actual list of questions, is in my view, poorly composed and he is simply not measuring what he thinks he is measuring.
Thanks Steven - I would be less suspicious of the global warning hypothesis if it did not serve so well the interests of so many state bureaucracies.
Indeed. Personally I generally support the AGW hypothesis based on data to date and supporting theory but I don’t agree with all the biased attribution studies and reports (i.e. climate change causes cataracts etc - I just made that one up, but I am sure it exists) and there is so much uncertainty in all the models that I remain highly skeptical of alarmism- and I don’t trust the competence or motivation of a large amount of the climate change crisis advocates.