"If people were answering surveys completely rationally, this doesn’t make sense. Those more sympathetic groups are a subset of “all undocumented immigrants”, but support for deporting them is far lower."
I don't think that's irrational, I think people are just reading the question as "would I rather have all undocumented immigrants be deported than the status quo/no deportations". If I had a mild preference for allowing long-term residents etc. to stay, but a very strong preference for violent criminals to be deported, I might say yes to that question.
That's approximately the logic I imagine people are going through- my point was strictly that saying yes to all and no to some doesn't technically make sense, and that a different form of reasoning was happening
"If people were answering surveys completely rationally, this doesn’t make sense. Those more sympathetic groups are a subset of “all undocumented immigrants”, but support for deporting them is far lower."
I don't think that's irrational, I think people are just reading the question as "would I rather have all undocumented immigrants be deported than the status quo/no deportations". If I had a mild preference for allowing long-term residents etc. to stay, but a very strong preference for violent criminals to be deported, I might say yes to that question.
That's approximately the logic I imagine people are going through- my point was strictly that saying yes to all and no to some doesn't technically make sense, and that a different form of reasoning was happening
Ooh, cool, I'll have to read this