Kindly comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 29 November 2012 10:26:43PM 3 points [-]

It might just pick out the cluster of "Less Wrong personality type".

In that case, it says something about the cluster as well. For example, Openness and Extraversion wouldn't be positively correlated just because most LWers are both open and extraverted (or because most LWers are closed and introverted). We'd have to have something that specifically makes "open and extraverted" more likely to happen together than individually.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 November 2012 12:26:04AM 3 points [-]

Something like Berkson's paradox (people who are neither open nor introverted are unlikely to read LW)?

Comment author: Kindly 30 November 2012 01:21:41AM 2 points [-]

Good point. Objection retracted (in the conversational sense).