You’ve made some good points here, especially in regard to the fact that empirically a lot of people do seem to think that the poor don’t care about money, and could have been answering the question in that context. I have to update my estimate that the change would not be that large if phrased explicitly in a way that emphasized utility of a dollar. My previous estimate was around 70% that the numbers for both would stay within +/- 10 percent or so (so the liberal/progressive “incorrect” response would be some level below 14% and the conservative/libertarian “incorrect” response would be around 21-41%). Given your arguments I still suspect this is true but need to reduce my confidence by quite a bit, to around 55% or so. So I’d still be willing to put even money on this. But I probably need to think about this more and update further.
You’ve made some good points here, especially in regard to the fact that empirically a lot of people do seem to think that the poor don’t care about money, and could have been answering the question in that context. I have to update my estimate that the change would not be that large if phrased explicitly in a way that emphasized utility of a dollar. My previous estimate was around 70% that the numbers for both would stay within +/- 10 percent or so (so the liberal/progressive “incorrect” response would be some level below 14% and the conservative/libertarian “incorrect” response would be around 21-41%). Given your arguments I still suspect this is true but need to reduce my confidence by quite a bit, to around 55% or so. So I’d still be willing to put even money on this. But I probably need to think about this more and update further.