Timeline for Should one use incentives when measuring voter preferences?
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| Dec 15, 2023 at 2:00 | comment | added | user103496 | The original Q in the title is now quite different from the added Q in bold. | |
| Dec 14, 2023 at 21:21 | history | edited | afreelunch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2023 at 20:30 | comment | added | dan04 | Yeah, there's definitely a widespread attitude of "I support The Current Thing, as long as it involves no significant cost (in terms of money, time, convenience, or reputation) to me whatsoever." Hence the term "slacktivism". | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 20:59 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | It appears that the question is really asking about the concept of studying people's views using "revealed preferences" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993927 But this approach to determining what people want (which gives more reliable data than a simple survey), is very different from an "incentivized" survey. Also "incentivized" is ambiguous. Incentivized to answer, incentivized to give an answer that post hoc will turn out to be correct, or what? | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 17:01 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | Good Q. Voters often say one thing and do another. For example, Washington state is fairly dependably Dem, but when push comes to shove has repeatedly nuked carbon taxes. The same problem is also faced by green policies in the EU. And, yes, there is often a direct linkage to people's wallets, so better knowledge would assist making sustainable (in the duration sense rather than green sense) policies. But, as you you note, would the results be representative? | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 16:28 | comment | added | Joe W | I think that would cut out a lot of honest supporters who either can't afford to donate or are picky about who they donate to in order to ensure it gets spent the way they want it to. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | afreelunch | @JoeW I'm talking about the latter possibility ("actually asking them to donate to something"). Usually, this is done by first giving respondents some cash, and then asking them if they want to donate some of that (as stated in the question). Though you are right that this could also pick up how much a respondent needs the money, so might be a noisy proxy for the underlying variable of interest. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:40 | comment | added | Joe W | @afreelunch Not really, it is just as easy to say you are going to donate money as saying you are supporting something. If you are actually asking them to donate to something you are excluding the ones who can't afford to do it. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | Joe W | @RogerV. And there can be valid reasons for them not being able to do various actions to support it. If someone is struggling to afford the things they need why would they be donating to a cause of any type? There could also be issues with donating to one organization versus another. The same could be said for volunteer work for people who don't have a lot of free time. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:38 | history | edited | afreelunch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | afreelunch | @Joe W The existing wording was not optimal; hopefully, it's now clearer. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 15:12 | comment | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | @JoeW people who support a cause are not always ready to do anything for promoting it - so one may question whether their support is genuine or just a knee-jerk reaction, or consequence of loyalty/opposition to a certain political party. E.g., many in this community support Ukrainians fighting to the bitter end, whatever are the human costs... but very few of these have actually volunteered to fight in the Ukrainian army. | |
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| Dec 12, 2023 at 14:32 | comment | added | Joe W | What exactly is different between asking if someone supports a cause and if they are willing to donate to that cause? If you are talking about needing to actually donate to the cause itself that brings up many different issues from not being able to afford it to not trusting random people calling and asking for donations with all the different donation related scams these days. | |
| Dec 12, 2023 at 14:09 | history | asked | afreelunch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |