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2011-06-22 09:10:26 | Denier climate quiz | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 121.222.9.229 |
Got this email:
I know we've discussed this quiz before - it appears to have befuddled a few people. I wonder if its worth examining as a way of exposing the rhetorical techniques of deniers that mislead people. | |
2011-06-22 10:06:18 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
I remember there was another site I looked at recently - Jon Nicol's, I think, that had another horridly misleading "quiz". It would make for an interesting post to look at all these denialist climate quizzes and analyze the types of tricks they use. In most cases they just give you a small bit of information and try to get the reader to draw a misinformed conclusion, like human CO2 emissions are small therefore we can't be causing global warming. I've found they usually leave the conclusion for the reader to draw on his own, no doubt so they can claim they're not trying to mislead. | |
2011-06-22 10:09:48 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
I've done that quiz before. Monte Heib. Kentucky Coal Mining Safety Engineer. | |
2011-06-22 10:46:27 | ||
John Hartz John Hartz john.hartz@hotmail... 98.122.98.161 |
In the US, political organizations have perfected "push-pull" polling. Based on the comments, I suspect that the poll in question is cut from the same cloth. | |
2011-06-22 11:00:24 | ||
Rob Painting Rob paintingskeri@vodafone.co... 118.93.14.251 |
Perhaps a quiz might be part of that 'sticky messaging' approach? | |
2011-06-22 12:46:04 | Good point, Rob | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 121.222.9.229 |
The whole format of a quiz is opening up gaps in people's understanding then filling the gaps. So very much using the 'unexpected' technique of stickiness. | |
2011-06-22 13:24:50 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
There are lots of bad quizzes out there. On the internet they always seem oriented to form a conclusion or "teach" you what someone wants you to "learn." If SkS does a quiz, let's make it an interesting genuinely interesting quiz. I am almost always turned off by online quizzes. But I think there are probably ways to do it well. | |
2011-06-22 13:44:54 | Not that interested in doing a quiz | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 121.222.9.229 |
Mainly cause it means programming work for me :-)
What might be interesting is a blog post exposing how these other denier quizzes mislead. Food for thought. | |
2011-06-22 14:10:35 | Blog post about climate-quizzes | |
BaerbelW baerbel-for-350@email... 93.231.144.64 |
Hi Folks, we wouldn't need to start from scratch as there already is my post from February: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Quiz.html Cheers | |
2011-06-22 16:10:57 | ||
Rob Painting Rob paintingskeri@vodafone.co... 118.92.107.144 |
Doh!, forgot about that post Baerbel. |