Wix comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2011 11:38:28PM 3 points [-]

(9.9%) were atheist and spiritual

I thought you meant spiritual as in "Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." did I misinterpret?

Comment author: taryneast 06 December 2011 07:35:39PM 5 points [-]

If an interpretation wasn't given, then you were free to make up whatever meant something to you. To contrast with yours, i interpreted spiritualism in this sense to match "non-theistic spiritualism" eg nature-spirits, transcendental meditation, wish-magic and the like.

Comment author: Polymeron 11 December 2011 11:52:32AM 4 points [-]

It seems to me that a reasonable improvement for the next survey would be to lower the ambiguity of these categories.

Comment author: scav 06 December 2011 12:47:26PM 1 point [-]

I think you are entitled to make up your own interpretation of a question like that :) Yours is a reasonable one IMO.