Vladimir_Nesov comments on Excuse me, would you like to take a survey? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 26 April 2009 10:27:24PM 5 points [-]

I specifically excluded "not committed" as an option on the political views section, because a lot of rationalists have a tendency to go towards "not committed" to signal how they're not blind followers of a party, when really they have very well defined political views.

I, for example, absolutely refuse to register with a political party, answer "independent" to any questions about my political affiliation, talk a good talk about how both parties are equally crooks, and then proceed to vote for the Democrat nine times out of ten. I would kind of like to force people like me to put "Democrat" on there so that we get more data.

I will change this if enough people agree with Vladimir.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 April 2009 10:32:36PM 2 points [-]

The problem is that In Russia there is only one Party, and studying what the classical options are, or what the little parties are, doesn't seem to be worth my time given the current situation.