moved? Q3. Do you think that your individual behavior has an impact on the climate change?

Q3. Do you think that your individual behavior has an impact on the climate change?

I think this is a good question but my only concern is that we are being too specific in asking if each person believes they have a direct impact on only climate change. If we are discussing environmental issues,it may be important to define what that means and which issues are placed into the category of issues. Climate change may be the most well known out there but that does not mean that it is the only one. If we are looking at citizens sustainability choices, it would be important to somehow figure out the extent to which they know and understand what these environmental issues are. Or if that somehow may be too complicated to figure out we could just change the question to: "Do you believe that your individual behavior has an impact on the most important environmental issues today?"

..or something along those lines, let me know what you guys think.

Yes, agree with the changes to the phrasing of the question. However, if we ask about "the most important environmental issues today" wouldn't that also create confusion as to what we mean by that. Different people may feel different issues are "important". How about "Do you believe that your individual behavior has an impact on the environment?"

Just opening it up for discussion :)

I think this question and question 3 are too similar to warrant separate questions, especially if we only have 5 questions and multiple RQs. I think we should just refine this/both questions and only have one question about what people think about how individual actions affect the environment.

VeronicaReiss, if you meant merging Q2 and Q3, then I think the revised question should incorporate a 1-5 point measurement scale, and perhaps the focus should be generalized to the "environment" and not just climate change? Thoughts?

Also, I think we're able to change the "subject lines" of each mini-discussion we're having. How about whenever we come onto a reasonable consensus that a question be changed, that person can also change the subject line. A minor detail, but it makes the discussion board neater and we can refer to questions easily.

I agree with Veronica. These questions sound too similar, so I think we can revise them intergrate them into one question. Also, we should keep in mind how to measure the "impact" or "differences that individuals make," because answers may become too vague or too broad to be measured.

I really like this question because it can give us some insight into what people think is the solution to unsustainable practices.

Thus we could try something like this:

IPCC Reports indicate that both individuals and governments are making unsustainable choices with regards to energy consumption methods, food purchasing and even production strategies. How important do you think it is for individuals to make sustainable choices regardless of government policies?

Very Important Important Neutral Not Important Not Very Important

How does this sound? I like giving them some information first.

"Do you think that your individual behavior has an impact on the climate change? " question is a really great one because this lets us know right off the start whether a citizen is even interested in the topic of sustainability. So if they answer "no" to this question, and they give answers to the following questions we compose in a way that hints this citizen to be unsustainale, the questions can act as parallel indicators or check point!

As I mentioned earlier in the discussion I think that the idea behind this question is great but is very similar to Q2 and I think that the work that has been made on question 2 make it a better question. I suggest that we keep question 2 and abandon this one.