scav comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: scav 08 November 2012 12:00:01PM 13 points [-]

Took the survey, did most of the extra questions. IQ 122 apparently. I'm sceptical of what that actually means but it sounds quite good so next time someone asks me, that's what I'll say :)

Didn't do Myers-Briggs because I'm pretty sure it's bullshit.

Not too surprised to find that my political views are measurably left libertarian. Wasn't happy with a lot of the political policy questions though - most of them were phrased in a way that I wanted to answer "it depends" or "yes, BUT...", or even "mu".

Comment author: Cakoluchiam 08 November 2012 08:18:58PM 3 points [-]

That Myers-Briggs test was a lot less thorough than what I remember from a lot of the ones I took online back in TheSpark era. Though, part of me is kind of glad that each of the extra credit questions could be completed in under an hour.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 November 2012 08:58:35PM 1 point [-]

I've seen this a lot now; what does "mu" mean in this context; where does the term come from?

Comment author: VincentYu 08 November 2012 09:22:12PM *  4 points [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)

It was popularized by Hofstadter's GEB.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 November 2012 05:31:12PM 1 point [-]

I interpreted “Strongly agree” as plain ‘yes’, and “Agree” as ‘it depends, but more often than not, yes’ or ‘yes, but...’.