jimrandomh comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 19 October 2012 01:55:26AM *  24 points [-]

Bonus questions:

  • Do you approve or disapprove of Eliezer's moderation of Roko's basilisk?
  • How many times have you read or edited the LessWrong.com wiki in the last month?
  • Drug use: caffeine, the amphetamine family (eg. Adderall or Ritalin), modafinil, nicotine (could be phrased to be either binary or weekly or monthly)
  • Perhaps a question about whether one reads Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
  • Big Five personality test? Shortest, short, long.

Third, please suggest a decent, quick, and at least somewhat accurate Internet IQ test I can stick in a new section, Unreasonably Long Bonus Questions.

GJP had a quick IQ test as part of their surveys, but it's not public. http://iqtest.dk takes about 20-30 minutes but is normed very hard, so you certainly don't have to worry about IQ inflation...

Comment author: jimrandomh 19 October 2012 02:12:05AM *  8 points [-]

Blur the "modafinil" question to "modafinil, armodafinil, or adrafinil", since the modafinil question is theoretically incriminating, so people are more likely to lie (or use the survey results to say bad things about us), but the blurred one isn't because adrafinil is unscheduled.

Comment author: gwern 19 October 2012 02:15:06AM 5 points [-]

Yes, that's not a bad idea. Would using the coinflipping technique be overkill?

Comment author: jimrandomh 19 October 2012 02:19:38AM 4 points [-]

Overkill for modafinil, maybe not overkill for the amphetamine family.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2012 12:14:43PM 2 points [-]

the coinflipping technique

What's that?

Comment author: gwern 19 October 2012 02:43:54PM 9 points [-]

Respondents are instructed to flip a coin; if heads answer yes, if tails answer truthfully. The overall difference from 50% is the real overall percentage while giving every yes answer deniability. I forget what this is called but it's common on touchy topics.

Comment author: Antisuji 19 October 2012 08:30:06PM *  4 points [-]

It's called randomized response. I remember hearing about it first a year or two ago on LW.

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