a.Heat waves / drought [Hitzewelle/Dürre]

Nein

For item a, test persons who selected lower values mostly justified their answers by saying that heat waves or drought had not yet occurred at their place of residence, or had occurred only rarely, and that they had noticed only little change in the average annual temperatures. Test persons who selected higher values, on the other hand, argued that they had registered a noticeable increase in temperatures in recent years and that their place of residence frequently experiences warm winters and summers with little precipitation:

• "Because it feels like it's always raining here." (TP566, scale value: 0)
• "There is hardly any change here." (TP406, scale value: 2)
• "Because some of the winter here is already way too warm, and there's little to no precipitation in the summer." (TP290, scale value: 6)
• „"In Brandenburg, we've had drought summers for five years, causing ever larger forest fires." (TP370, scale value: 10)

The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the item, so it can be left in its current form.

true