Comments are presented on the paper by Rosado-González et al. (Geoheritage 12:36, 2020), an attempt of quantification ―based on social perception― of the performance of four Latin American UNESCO Global Geoparks against a set of Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations “2030 Agenda”). Beyond analyzing the ethical considerations and potential consequences of a study conceived as a non-independent evaluation of individual geoparks, we discuss potential weaknesses in the methodology that could lead to inaccurate results. The unavailability of key information such as the survey questionnaire, along with the non-justified choice of some statistic parameters and the use of non-probabilistic “convenience sampling,” could make the study non-reproducible and inappropriate for any generalization. This is coupled with that is the fact that the study does not consider the population differences between the “assessed” Geoparks in determining the survey sample size.

评论在Rosado-González等人的论文中提出。（2020年，Geoheritage 12：36），尝试“基于社会认知”对四个拉丁美洲教科文组织全球地质公园在一系列可持续发展目标方面的表现进行量化（联合国“ 2030年议程”）。除了分析被认为是对各个地质公园的非独立评估的研究的道德考量和潜在后果之外，我们还讨论了方法学中可能导致结果不准确的潜在弱点。无法获得诸如调查问卷之类的关键信息，加上一些统计参数的不合理选择以及使用非概率性的“便利抽样”，可能会使该研究不可重复且不适用于任何概括。