While this is somewhat accurate, it might be more appropriate to elucidate this as an “inherent affinity”.
For their response to comment #6, while I generally agreed with the authors, I felt that it didn’t quite address what I tried to originally convey. POE scales do not likely target biophilic elements in architectural designs directly, since a direct question (e.g., how satisfied are you with the biophilic features) may not accurately depict every beneficial nuance they offer (e.g., psychological recovery). Mayer’s connectedness to nature scale) to help measure them. My generally feeling is that scales, from other domains (i.e., outside of POE studies) have been adopted for this reason, and a short sentence explaining the rationale supporting the lack of scales for biophilic design could be provided to briefly mentioned this. Instead studies may elect to use, for example, other relatable scales, which may not have originally been designed for POE surveys (e.g.