Why Is Simply Asking People How Much They Value a Highway

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Multiple Choice

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

• 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 relating to cost will always be downwardly biased.
• D)Not everyone asked will be using the highway.

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