Simply Asking People How Much They Value a Highway Is

question 227

Multiple Choice

Simply asking people how much they value a highway is not a reliable way of measuring the benefits and costs because

• A)those who stand to gain have an incentive to tell the truth.
• B)those who stand to lose have an incentive to exaggerate their true costs.
• C)answers to the survey questions will always be downwardly biased.
• D)not everyone asked will be using the highway.

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