[thaumasiotes]

> So the more likely explanation is not that people were calling themselves vegetarian but also eating meat recently, it’s that around half of those reporting vegetarians were either mis-clicks or people blindly clicking things. It happens a lot in online polls.

No, you're just making things up. For one thing, these are telephone polls, not online polls.

[malfist]

You say that, the the psychology today deliberately does not link to the study. It links to several studies but not the one they're writing about. The most they identify it as is a 2002 Times/CNN survey.

If you have the actual study please share it. Right now, I doubt the veracity of psychology today's claims.

In fact I've done more digging since posting this and the only other people talking about this survey is citing psychology today as their source. I can find no primary sources.

[thaumasiotes]

That poll is not published. But if you doubt the veracity of Psychology Today, it's easy enough to verify that Time/CNN sponsored it and published on the results: https://time.com/archive/6666859/should-we-all-be-vegetarian...

You can find other Time articles that cover their methodology, which involves paying a polling (or consulting) firm to run the poll.

> It links to several studies but not the one they're writing about.

Which one do you think is "the one they're writing about"? The Psychology Today piece opens with a description of the current state of affairs.

You might or might not have noticed that immediately after the mention of the Time poll, Psychology Today links to a survey published by the USDA finding that, among self-described vegetarians, 64% reported eating meat within the last 24 hours. Why do you doubt the Time poll?

[malfist]

So its a real survey but we're not allowed to see it? Can't see methodology can't see the actual numbers, can't see their margin of error or the questions.

I'm sorry, but science doesn't happen in the dark. "Trust me" isn't the path to data