thomblake comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 05 December 2011 10:21:04PM 3 points [-]

Requires people to self assess next to a cultural baseline, and self assessments of this sort are notoriously inaccurate. (I predict everyone will think they have above-average involvement).

Comment author: thomblake 15 December 2011 04:23:49PM 1 point [-]

I predict everyone will think they have above-average involvement

Bad prediction. While it's hard to say since so few people around here actually vote, my involvement in politics is close enough to 0 that I'd be very surprised if I was more involved than average.