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  • However, focusing only on flavours like this isn’t very useful, says Alan Chalmers at the University of Warwick, UK, because other senses are also involved in how we taste. “Next time you have a strawberry, close your nose and eyes. A strawberry is very sour, but it is perceived as sweet because of its aroma and the red colour. So if you send just sour across with their device, you will never know that it is actually from a strawberry.”

    Would be curious to only taste a strawberry without the smell and colour. I wonder one would be able to figure out what it was.






  • Yes, list experiments. There are several research papers with such methodology that I am aware of that cover russian support for the invasion of Ukraine. One shows 65% support for the full scale invasion (even after preference falsification adjustments). Another one regarding annexation of Crimea shows 80% support with no preference falsification (i.e. full alignment with other polling methods); an overwhelming majority of russian really do support the annexation of Crimes; the first stage of their invasion of Ukraine.

    And even logically, the mere existence of preference falsification doesn’t inherently means that it is impossible for a strong majority of russians to be supporters of genocidal imperialism. The preference falsification would be have to be significant (which needs to be shown empirically).

    The 33% support figure conflicts all other research on this topic (using any methodology), that’s why I was asking.

    No worries if you don’t don’t a have link. I might do some random searches using 33% as a base. Cheers!



  • Unlike support for Trump in the US, support for genocidal imperialism among russians is at minimum a strong majority if not an overwhelming majority. The majority holds across all demographic segments; age, education, rural vs. urban, income.

    At the point is usually when you hear arguments such as “all russians are afraid, they are all secret liberals” or “how can we truly know what russians think”.

    It turns out that people that people who work in this areas do have methods of not only accounting for preference falsification, but even estimating it’s scope.

    And even adjusting for preference falsification you still have at least a strong majority openly supporting imperialism and genocide.

    Is this situation the same for support for Trump in the US?