simplicio comments on New study on choice blindness in moral positions - Less Wrong
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Quite. My own answer to most of the questions in the survey is "Yes/No, but with the following qualifications." It's not too hard for me to imagine choosing, say, "Yes" to the surveillance question (despite my qualms), then being told I said "No," and believing it.
You won't fool these people if you ask them about something salient like abortion.
Abortion is a complex issue. You could propably change someone's position on one aspect of the abortion debate, such as a hardline pro-lifer "admitting" that it's OK in cases where the mother's life is in danger.