{"id":3064,"date":"2010-06-15T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2010-06-15T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:14:05","slug":"the-outlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"The Outlier"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war between the global warming pollsters is on. Last week, in a NYT op-ed<\/a> that was widely discussed in the media, Stanford’s Jon Krosnick<\/a> asserted that<\/p>\n

Purchase Valium Online national surveys released during the last eight months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and threatening to people.<\/p>\n

But a closer look at these polls and a new survey<\/a> by my Political Psychology Research Group show just the opposite: huge majorities of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Tramadol Without Prescription Not so fast. Yesterday, in a NYT letter to the editor<\/a> that seems to have gone virtually unnoticed in the blogosphere, the Pew’s Andrew Kohut<\/a> says that Krosnick’s survey is marred by faulty methodology. This latest poll, according to Kohut, used words that encourged a positive response:<\/p>\n

this is known in the polling world as acquiescence bias.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/facilitationoverview/ Kohut admits that none of the many questions pollsters use to gauge public attitudes on global warming are perfect,<\/p>\n

but almost all, except Mr. Krosnick’s, show a significant decline in belief in climate change. Pew Research not only found fewer in 2009 seeing solid evidence of global warming, but also fewer calling it a very serious problem and fewer naming warming a top priority for the president and Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Purchase Xanax Online Now I happen to think the big news on Krosnick’s survey revealed more important and uncomfortable truths<\/a> that climate advocates would rather not deal with. But because there is such a tussle over these polls, I think it’s worth drawing attention to Kohut’s NYT letter, including his final thrust:<\/p>\n

Buy Lorazepam Online Without Prescription Far from being definitive, Mr. Krosnick’s finding is but one indicator and an outlier at that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription How did people miss this yesterday? Kohut’s pushback seems to have escaped even Morano’s notice, who surely would have trumpeted it on Climate Depot<\/a> had he seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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