> The exact phrasing asked respondents to rate other people from 1 (“basically trustworthy”) to 5 (“basically untrustworthy”). 4853 people answered. The average was 2.49
> predictably, the people who agreed to let me make their data public were systematically more trusting (2.49) than the people who refused (2.70).
If these three numbers are looking at different data sets (complete/public/private), it seems like one of them must be a typo?
Edit: I do get 2.49 for the public data set, and my numbers for male versus female agree with yours. Did you do the whole analysis on the public set?
It could be that the number of people who refused to make their data public was very small, but otherwise I agree that’s inconsistent and needs to be clarified.
Minor, but
> The exact phrasing asked respondents to rate other people from 1 (“basically trustworthy”) to 5 (“basically untrustworthy”). 4853 people answered. The average was 2.49
> predictably, the people who agreed to let me make their data public were systematically more trusting (2.49) than the people who refused (2.70).
If these three numbers are looking at different data sets (complete/public/private), it seems like one of them must be a typo?
Edit: I do get 2.49 for the public data set, and my numbers for male versus female agree with yours. Did you do the whole analysis on the public set?
It could be that the number of people who refused to make their data public was very small, but otherwise I agree that’s inconsistent and needs to be clarified.