This polled only somewhat better, with 39% in favor and 19% opposing. I’m still pretty confused what conclusion to draw from this; this is probably worth digging more into.
People instinctively hate things that are too good to be true. This isn’t inherently irrational—if something is, in the literal sense, too good to be possible, then whoever is proposing it is either daft or manipulative, and, in both cases, you would down-weight your priors on whatever they suggest to achieve this impossible ends being a good thing.
An equivalent would be polling Americans by phone about whether they would like to save 50 percent on car insurance. Absolutely everyone would like that, if they believed it were possible, but nearly everyone believes it’s not, so you’d mostly get an annoyed “no” and a quick disconnection.
Come to think of it, you could ask that exact question to test this hypothesis.
People instinctively hate things that are too good to be true. This isn’t inherently irrational—if something is, in the literal sense, too good to be possible, then whoever is proposing it is either daft or manipulative, and, in both cases, you would down-weight your priors on whatever they suggest to achieve this impossible ends being a good thing.
An equivalent would be polling Americans by phone about whether they would like to save 50 percent on car insurance. Absolutely everyone would like that, if they believed it were possible, but nearly everyone believes it’s not, so you’d mostly get an annoyed “no” and a quick disconnection.
Come to think of it, you could ask that exact question to test this hypothesis.
good idea, i can test that