AdeleneDawner comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 22 March 2011 04:36:24PM 2 points [-]

The key word ... is "make."

Exactly so.

I do think that wording the question that way is a bit questionable, though, since it can easily be misread.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 22 March 2011 04:44:25PM 0 points [-]

(nods) Surveys are problematic that way, in general. The only way I know of to get around it is to phrase every question several different ways and look for variation among the answers based on the phrasing.

The safest move is probably to simply discard any question where the answer depends too much on the phrasing, although in practice that probably means discarding all survey results ever.

Mostly, survey results are good for comparing results on the same survey over time.