taw comments on Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks - Less Wrong

3 Post author: taw 16 September 2009 10:00AM

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Comment author: taw 16 September 2009 10:03:58PM 2 points [-]

For one amount of lying changes drastically depending on tiny details of how the test is administered. If you know about widespread lying is, and want to include it, you need to standardize testing conditions.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 17 September 2009 01:58:03PM *  0 points [-]

Doing anything with answers to questions you know people systemically lie about, you need to ask yourself what are you really measuring...

For one amount of lying changes drastically depending on tiny details of how the test is administered. If you know about widespread lying is, and want to include it, you need to standardize testing conditions.

Those are good points. They definitely could produce better measures.