mhague , 3 months ago

The study isn’t about community safety or gun stats, they said the goal was to explore opinions. Opinions are therefore the data, the facts, of this domain. Are you seriously suggesting that researchers interested in opinions eschew opinions and use (barely relevant) stats instead? Because people don’t necessarily form opinions on facts. Which is why opinions are their own thing, and evidence is another thing. Two separate domains.

“80% of Americans think there should be more affordable housing in theory. 10% of Americans are willing to live near affordable housing.”

This kind of stuff is worth committing to data.