> Six percent of the individuals surveyed said they considered themselves vegetarian

In any casual poll like this, every number has a large margin of error. When 6% of respondents select an answer, some of those were mis-clicks, people who misread the answers, or people who were just clicking through randomly. The latter happens a lot when bad UX means the only way to see the results is to take the poll.

So the more likely explanation is not that people were calling themselves vegetarian but also eating meat recently, it’s that around half of those reporting vegetarians were either mis-clicks or people blindly clicking things. It happens a lot in online polls.

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thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent [-]

> So the more likely explanation is not that people were calling themselves vegetarian but also eating meat recently, it’s that around half of those reporting vegetarians were either mis-clicks or people blindly clicking things. It happens a lot in online polls.

No, you're just making things up. For one thing, these are telephone polls, not online polls.

	▲	malfist 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You say that, the the psychology today deliberately does not link to the study. It links to several studies but not the one they're writing about. The most they identify it as is a 2002 Times/CNN survey. If you have the actual study please share it. Right now, I doubt the veracity of psychology today's claims. In fact I've done more digging since posting this and the only other people talking about this survey is citing psychology today as their source. I can find no primary sources.