Jandila comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 December 2011 08:12:39PM 18 points [-]

Michael Vassar has mentioned to me that the proportion of first/only children at LW is extremely high. I'm not sure whether birth order makes a big difference, but it might be worth asking about. By the way, I'm not only first-born, I'm the first grandchild on both sides.

Questions about akrasia-- Do you have no/mild/moderate/serious problems with it? Has anything on LW helped?

I left some of the probability questions blank because I realized had no idea of a sensible probability, and I especially mean whether we're living in a simulation.

It might be interesting to ask people whether they usually vote.

The link to the survey doesn't work because the survey is closed-- could you make the text of the survey available?

Comment author: steven0461 04 December 2011 08:59:15PM 8 points [-]

There was a poll about firstborns.

Comment author: falenas108 04 December 2011 09:37:54PM 1 point [-]

That poll shows a remarkable result, the number of people that are the oldest sibling outnumber those who have older siblings 2:1.

There are also twice as many only children in that survey as in the U.S. population in 1980, but that is a known effect.

Comment author: steven0461 04 December 2011 09:42:28PM *  3 points [-]

More than 3:1 even. I speculated a bit here.