NancyLebovitz comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 01 November 2011 08:04:35AM 28 points [-]

After reading the feedback I've made the following changes (after the first 104 entries so that anyone who has access to the data can check if there are significant differences before and after these changes):

  • Added an "other" option in gender
  • Moved "date of singularity" above question mentioning 2100 to avoid anchoring. Really I should also move the Newton question for the same reason, but I'm not going to.
  • changed wording of anti-agathics question to "at least one person"
  • added a "don't know / no preference" to relationship style
  • clarified to answer probability as percent and not decimal; I'll go back and fix anyone who got this wrong, though. If you seriously mean a very low percent, like ".05%", please end with a percent mark so I know not to change it. Otherwise, leave the percent mark out.
  • Added a "government work" option.
  • Deleted "divorced". Divorced people can just put "single"
  • Added "economic/political collapse" to xrisk
  • Added "other" to xrisk
  • Added a question "Have you ever been to a Less Wrong meetup?" Please do NOT retake the survey to answer this question. I'll just grab statistics from the people who answered this after it was put up, while recognizing it might be flawed.

I did NOT add an "Other" to politics despite requests to do so, because I tried this last time and ended up with people sending me manifestos. I want to encourage people to choose whichever of those categories they're closest to. If you really don't identify at all with any of those categories, just leave it blank.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 November 2011 01:27:08PM 9 points [-]

Should anyone retake the survey? I'd be willing to if you can cancel the my first version-- I'll give the same answers on the Newton question.

Not as good as if someone can find a satisfactory IQ test, but could you add an SAT option for intelligence measurement?

I used percents for all my probabilities, including the one which was .5.

Comment author: dbaupp 01 November 2011 01:53:57PM 2 points [-]

SAT option for intelligence measurement

Could you also add an ATAR/UAI, A-levels, Abitur and IB option?

(It might be better to add a box asking for marks/certificate received upon leaving high school and the name of the program; with sufficient respondents there may be enough data to say meaningful things)

Comment author: Randaly 01 November 2011 04:01:34PM 9 points [-]

Some of us are still in high school.

Comment author: RobertLumley 01 November 2011 04:04:55PM 1 point [-]

I'd also be willing (I'd probably rather) retake the quiz.

But there is a problem with calibration at that point, with the question about Newton.