AnnaSalamon comments on Practical rationality questionnaire - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 17 April 2009 01:31:20AM *  2 points [-]

Good survey, and I like the calibration questions: coming up with good ones is tough. But I suggest the following:

Create an "as happy as other people" for the happiness questions, instead of just "less" or "more"

Define "auto accident" better (I had one that sort of nicked my bumper)

Define "exercise" better (I walk everywhere I go, totalling at least an hour per day, but I don't go to gyms. Does that count?)

In "have you earned more or less than those you grew up with?", include an option for "I am in school" - I think a lot of us are earning less than our peers, but only because we're in some kind of graduate education while they're out making money

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 17 April 2009 01:38:25AM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the suggestions. I added a separate question asking if respondants are currently in school. I added a happiness option per your suggestion (which means the first 45 responses will be to a different questionnaire, but we can keep that in mind). Your other suggestions make sense, but I'm refraining to avoid changing questions midstream.

Comment author: Simulacra 17 April 2009 03:10:32AM 0 points [-]

Should those of us that know we are in the first 45 responses retake the survey? It looks like a number of things have changed since I took it. My default assumption is no as I don't want to duplicate, but I thought I'd ask.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 17 April 2009 03:12:16AM 1 point [-]

Don't duplicate, please.

It's mostly the same, and better to have a couple slightly-different questions (with known populations that answered one vs. the other) than to have repeated rows.