thomblake comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (694)
There's an established way of correcting for this in market research (and other fields): coding. Let's say you have the following list:
Then you have someone go through all the typed-in responses, and when someone types in "special snowflake utilitarian" you code that as a 1 rather than a 4.
This is also done for completely open-end responses. Sometimes something like "additional comments" will on the back end look like: