Effectiveness of Interest Groups

Nice one.

I think the particular example Boris gave is an excellent example of the kinds of questions we could potentially ask people if we wanted to know how well they were informed a propos to some environmental policy/ issue X, though I would be careful around structuring our the answers we provide them to reflect a realistic frequency of times they have been exposed to a certain issue. So, in the context of this Tar Sands example, I think we'd have to be rational and assume that the gregarious people of MetroVancouver have (likely) heard of the Tar Sands at least more than 5 times a year - it would be more like 5 times per month.