Description
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The Severe Weather and Society Survey (WX) was designed and administered by the Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM) at the University of Oklahoma. This is the fourth survey in the annual series (see Silva et al. 2017, Silva et al. 2018, and Krocak et al. 2019 for information on WX17, WX18, and WX19). WX20 was fielded June 10 – July 19, 2020 using an online questionnaire that was completed by 3,000 U.S. adults (age 18+) that were recruited from an Internet panel that matches the characteristics of the U.S. population as estimated in the U.S. Census. Following WX17, WX18, and WX19, which were designed to establish baseline measures of the extent to which U.S. adults receive, understand, and respond to severe weather forecasts and warnings, WX20 was designed to continue and, in some cases, refine the measurement of these concepts. Additionally, WX20 measured public trust in the National Weather Service (NWS), extreme weather and climate risk perceptions, risk literacy, interpretations of probabilistic language, and perceptions the accuracy of weather information.
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