YouGov

YouGov appears in Would you trust an economist with your economy? through a 2017 British public-trust survey cited by the episode. The source says respondents trusted nurses far more than economists, and that trust in weather forecasters was about twice as high as trust in economists.

The episode uses the YouGov result as evidence that economists’ trust problem is not only a loud political-media story. It is measurable public-opinion context for Economist Trust Crisis, and it helps explain why simply repeating aggregate numbers may not persuade skeptical audiences.

Connections

• Economist Trust Crisis - public-opinion evidence branch.
• Official Statistics Credibility - adjacent trust problem around economic data.
• Economic Way Of Thinking - contrast between economics as useful reasoning and economists as distrusted authorities.
• Expert Trust Repair - response path the episode develops after presenting the trust gap.