That doesn’t mean it wasn’t rounding though. People ‘helpfully’ round their own answers all the time before giving them. ‘0’ as a probability simply means that it isn’t going to happen, not necessarily that it couldn’t, while ’100′ then means something that will definitely happen (though it may not be a logical necessity).
In some cases ‘1%’ could actually be lower than ‘0%’ since they are doing different things (and 1% is highly suspect as a round number for ‘extremely unlikely’ too.) Ditto for ’99%′ being higher than ‘100%’ sometimes (while 99% is also a suspicious round number too for, ‘I would be very surprised if it didn’t happen’.)
I don’t think that it would necessarily be telling, but it might be interesting to look at it without numbers from ’99%-100%′ and ‘0%-1%’, and then directly compare them to the results with those numbers included..
We didn’t do rounding though, right? Like, these people actually said 0?
That doesn’t mean it wasn’t rounding though. People ‘helpfully’ round their own answers all the time before giving them. ‘0’ as a probability simply means that it isn’t going to happen, not necessarily that it couldn’t, while ’100′ then means something that will definitely happen (though it may not be a logical necessity).
In some cases ‘1%’ could actually be lower than ‘0%’ since they are doing different things (and 1% is highly suspect as a round number for ‘extremely unlikely’ too.) Ditto for ’99%′ being higher than ‘100%’ sometimes (while 99% is also a suspicious round number too for, ‘I would be very surprised if it didn’t happen’.)
I don’t think that it would necessarily be telling, but it might be interesting to look at it without numbers from ’99%-100%′ and ‘0%-1%’, and then directly compare them to the results with those numbers included..
Right.