Measuring Planned Behaviors is Hard

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Experienced market researchers know that asking about future behaviors in surveys is tricky. For many reasons, there is a big difference between what people say they will do and what they actually do. Anyone with a teenager will back me up on this; statements such as “I’ll clean my room tomorrow” or “I’ll walk the dog after dinner” may be well-intentioned, but are no guarantee of task completion.