buybuydandavis comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 15 December 2012 05:51:42PM 0 points [-]

That gets to the issue I had with the question.

"Significant" is just too vague. Everyone who gave an answer was answering a different question, depending on how they interpreted "significant".

The survey question itself indicates a primary problem with the discussion of global warming - a conflation of temperature rise and societal cost of temperature rise. First, ask a meaningful question about temperature increase. Then, ask questions about societal cost given different levels of temperature increase.