Bugmaster comments on [POLL] LessWrong group on YourMorals.org - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 30 November 2011 06:48:55AM 2 points [-]

Hmm, I took the "sacredness" study, and got high scores for one of the categories (which shall remain unnamed due to spoilers), indicating that I care strongly about this category. However, I believe my high score is biased due to the way the questions for that category were phrased: they conflated that category with another one which I value quite highly.

Did anyone else have that (perceived) experience, or is it just me ? I could post some rot13ed details, if people think the above paragraph is too vague.

Comment author: lessdazed 30 November 2011 06:57:52AM 8 points [-]

You're saying that you took an online survey with multiple choice answers to vague hypotheticals and the result doesn't fully capture your ethics, beliefs, and values?

Comment author: Bugmaster 30 November 2011 07:03:57AM 4 points [-]

Well gee, when you put it like that, it sounds positively silly :-)

But no, I'm not merely complaining that the study fails to capture a uniquely beautiful snowflake such as myself, but that it's strongly flawed, and thus it will likely fail to produce useful results. That's my guess, anyway.