CannibalSmith comments on Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source - Less Wrong

6 Post author: gworley 07 August 2009 02:49PM

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Comment author: anonym 08 August 2009 05:16:58AM *  3 points [-]

It seems problematic to me that your survey asks people to give the same zero rating for techniques they've never tried (and which may or may not be effective) and techniques they've found to be totally ineffective.

It seems much preferable to me to have no answer given for techniques that haven't been tried.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 08 August 2009 10:06:19AM 0 points [-]

My guess is that it's a limitation of Google Docs.

Comment author: anonym 08 August 2009 07:22:52PM 1 point [-]

The form/survey functionality of Google Docs allows a question to be required or not, so people could just not answer questions related to techniques they've never tried.