Top 100 Users' Data, aka Karma 1000+

I was thinking about the fact that there is probably a difference between active LWers versus lurkers or newbies. So I looked at the data for the Top 100 users (actually Top 107, because there was a tie). This happily coincided with the nice Schelling point of 1000 karma. (make sense, because people are likely to round to that number.) To me, this reads as "has been actively posting for at least a year".

So, some data on 1000+ karma people:

Slightly more likely to be male:
92.5% Male, 7.4% Female

NOTE: First percentage is for 1000+ users, second number is for all survey respondents

Much more likely to be polyamorous:

Prefer mono 36% v. 54%
Prefer poly 24% v. 13%
Uncertain 33% v. 30%
Other 4% v. 2%

About the same Age:
average 28.6 v. 27.8

About as likely to be single
51% v. 53%

Equally likely to be vegetarian
12%

Much more likely to use modafinil at least once per month:
15% v. 4%

About equal on intelligence tests

SAT out of 1600: 1509 v. 1486
SAT out of 2400: 2260 v. 2319
Self reported IQ: 138.5 v. 138.7
online IQ test: 127 v. 126
ACT score: 33.3 v. 32.7

Similar income
50k

Slightly lower Autism quotient:
average 22 v. 24

More likely to choose torture
Torture: 42% v. 22%
Dust Specks: 29% v. 37%

More likely to cooperate in a Prisoner's Dilemma:
Cooperate: 36% v. 27%
Defect: 20% v. 29%

Some notes: Yes, I realize my data analysis methods are not the best. Namely, that instead of comparing the people with >1000 karma to the people with <100 karma, which would have been more accurate, I just compared them to the overall results (which includes their answers). I did this because it takes much less time.

Also, a hint for other people playing with the data in Excel format: A lot of the numbers are in text format, and a pain to convert to numeric format in a way that allows you to manipulate them. The easiest work around (so long as you don't want to do anything complicated) is to just paste the needed columns either into google spreadsheet, or into another Excel sheet that's been formatted numerically. If you want to do something complicated you probably need to find the "right" way to fix it.