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, 4 years ago→An operational way to define opinions on issues
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Now suppose you go around and ask people their opinion regarding many such issues, under those specific framings, and that people answered you honestly and accurately to the best of their knowledge. (We can't really expect more than that, as we can't read people's minds.)
At the very least, we would like to know whether they agree or disagree with the statement. But we could also ask how strongly they feel about that position, how certain they are of it, and how important they feel it is to hold that position.
One way to convert this into a numerical scale is by considering the following parameters:
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