An insightful comment recently appeared on the latest opinion poll results:
Yeah, this blog is thought-provoking, which is why I still peruse it (as a Light-to-Dark Green person myself), but people are totally misreading the content if they think it's anywhere north of Brownish-Green.
Maybe to other economists, y'all seem like filthy hippies.
Posted by: allen claxton | October 15, 2006 at 09:51 PM
you had that poll up for so long that i began to just vote repeatedly and randomly depending on my mood...
sorry if i messed up your scientific study.
:)
Posted by: joshua corning | October 15, 2006 at 10:01 PM
I was pretty surprised by that result but maybe it says more about your readers than about your blog!
Posted by: David Jeffery | October 15, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Joshua,
The polls are set up to not allow more than 1 vote from each voter (based on IP address or something) every year. Hopefully this kicks out multiple votes.
Note: I've kept it up so long because I can't think of another one right now.
John
Posted by: John Whitehead | October 15, 2006 at 11:07 PM
I reckon people think this blog is so green because a lot of results tend to favour the greens. This is because environmental economics is a relatively new science, constantly combatting the old allocations of resources which were based on a different paradigm of decision making. It is my hope that when EE matures and has a strong hold on current allocative decisions that it will come to represent a true middle ground in the green/brown debate, hopefully, eradicating this pointless waste of intellectual resources all together.
I hope for an balance in environmental thought based on the more arbitrary elements of EE. Being green isn't the answer, nor is being brown....so i'm sure you can guess what the answer is.
Posted by: PSLIS | October 16, 2006 at 07:42 AM
The unscientific results of our recent poll show that opinions of mine and John environmental views are varied. Some think we are greener than Kermit the Frog while others think we're as brown as, um, something really brown. I've run across similar comments in a class I teach: Resource Economics. The class membership consists of a combination of econ majors (capitalists) and natural resource majors (environmentalists). My experience has been that the economists tend to label me an environmentalist while the environmentalists tend to label me a capitalist. I think I'm doing my job.
Posted by: Tim Haab | October 16, 2006 at 09:50 AM
If it's based on IP adress then it doesn't do much to keep someone from voting more than once. Most people have dynamic IP adresses so just disconnecting the internet would allow you to vote again. That comes down to a vote a day depending on how often you visit the site.
Posted by: Eniryt Manaen | October 16, 2006 at 01:24 PM