If a hurricane was headed your way, would you evacuate? the headline of a press release states, "thirty-five percent of people on high-risk coast will refuse evacuation order, survey of hurricane preparedness finds." this headline was based on a survey of 4629 adults who live within 20 miles of the coast in high hurricane risk counties of eight southern states. in selecting the sample, care was taken to ensure that the sample would be representative of the population of coastal residents in these states