I guess one way to make these findings potentially stronger / more informative would be to see whether effect size varies as one would expect with familiarity of Just Stop Oil (i.e. more change with more exposure)?
We thought about doing this but ruled it out as there would be a pretty clear bias e.g. the people who are most likely to hear about Just Stop Oil are people who are climate-conscious already, and are therefore more susceptible to positive shifts. I think we did do this informally, and did find a positive correlation between knowledge of Just Stop Oil and the constructs, but I don’t think it’s particularly robust.
Thinking out loud but maybe one way to control for this might be doing this within groups of people who answered the same to “How concerned are you about climate change” in the first survey, although this might make our sample sizes quite small / no longer representative.
Thanks for this work and the nuanced write up.
I guess one way to make these findings potentially stronger / more informative would be to see whether effect size varies as one would expect with familiarity of Just Stop Oil (i.e. more change with more exposure)?
Thanks Johannes!
We thought about doing this but ruled it out as there would be a pretty clear bias e.g. the people who are most likely to hear about Just Stop Oil are people who are climate-conscious already, and are therefore more susceptible to positive shifts. I think we did do this informally, and did find a positive correlation between knowledge of Just Stop Oil and the constructs, but I don’t think it’s particularly robust.
Thinking out loud but maybe one way to control for this might be doing this within groups of people who answered the same to “How concerned are you about climate change” in the first survey, although this might make our sample sizes quite small / no longer representative.