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 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.