Disclaimer: I took the survey mentioned in this post. I do not intend to discuss my responses here, but CavLec readers will be able to divine most of them.
Peter Suber is annoyed that an ASIST survey contains some well-known canards against open access.
I’m not.
The simple fact is, people believe this garbage. But the extent of that belief is not known and not taken sufficiently seriously because surveys refuse to measure it. This in turn produces false “sure, they’ll all self-archive!” happytalk. Who gets left holding the bag for that happytalk? Me. And all the other repository-rats who damned well know better.
The other methodological peccadilloes Suber mentions I have no religion on, not being a statistician. I also recognize that framing a survey with explicitly false information creates a risk that people who didn’t believe the garbage believe it after taking the survey. I consider that acceptable risk.
Anything to cut the happytalk-crack with some reality.
