 According to Perrin and Benassi, “after reanalyzing data from [Mayer and Frantz’s] article, collecting and analyzing our own data, and conducting a content analysis of CNS scale items, we conclude that the CNS does not measure an emotional connection to nature.” Perrin and Benassi provided a number of reasons for why they concluded the CNS does not measure emotions towards nature.For example, Mayer and Frantz use the word feel in eight out of the fourteen items on the CNS.Perrin and Benassi argue that the word feel, as it is used in the items of the CNS (“I feel that all inhabitants of the Earth, human and nonhuman, share a common life force”), does not mean an emotional state but a “cognitive assessment,”.