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An interesting poll on climate change from Yale University has been released. This poll, based on data collected in the USA, shows a number of things, perhaps the most interesting being that people who believe in climate change themselves is 63%, whilst those who believe there is scientific consensus on it is 41%.
Data shows responses to a number of climate related questions at the national, state, congressional district and county level.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 23 2015, @11:14PM
If the poll started off by using the religious word "believe" (as is indicated by everyone so far on this page), this poll is of zero value.
I disagree. A scientifically minded person would presumably believe whatever the preponderance of evidence supports. If someone arrives at an actionable opinion (e.g. votes) via some other route we want to include that.
"Do you understand..."
"Do you accept the conclusion by the professional climate science community that..."
That's some pretty loaded wording there. Are we purposely designing this study to prove something?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @12:45AM
If you are going to ask someone's opinion on something, wouldn't it be useful to know that his knowledge of the topic is less than zero?
...but, since pollsters never publish the questions they ask (and only their interpretation of the questions and answers), that may be asking a lot.
...and to think that pollsters don't ask leading questions is pretty naive.
(There's a great episode of "Yes, Minister" where Sir Humphrey explains the subject to Jim using an example.)
-- gewg_