MixedNuts comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 05 December 2011 03:04:21PM *  9 points [-]

Good idea!

Many of the questions were USA-centric, assuming people grew up with some religion or political climate common in the US. I didn't get indoctrinated to republicans or democrats, I got indoctrinated to environmentalism, and there's just no way to map that onto American politics where it's an issue rather than a faction. And it might in some ways be the closest match on the religion question as well, being a question of fact that I later had to try to de-bias myself on.

Comment author: MixedNuts 06 December 2011 11:06:10AM 0 points [-]

Amusingly, Yvain is not American. Though he probably absorbed US culture anyway.

Comment author: Emile 06 December 2011 11:45:24AM 2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure Yvain is American, just studying abroad.

Comment author: MixedNuts 06 December 2011 12:00:16PM 0 points [-]

Uh, you're right. I had him as Irish moving to the US, rather than the other way around.