Vaniver comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 01 December 2012 04:43:26PM 4 points [-]

Out of the 1067 people who made their responses public, 694 are all three, which is 65%.

Comment author: alex_zag_al 01 December 2012 04:47:40PM 1 point [-]

Magfrump, how did you manage to guess that it would be over the product? I wouldn't have thought they would be positively correlated.

Comment author: Vaniver 01 December 2012 05:00:54PM *  1 point [-]

53% isn't the product; the product is 60.5%. 53% is 100%-13.8%-15.7%-16.7%=53.8%, i.e. every person who deviates from typical does so in only one way. magfrump did correctly guess that it was more likely that they were positively correlated than not, which is what I would have guessed as well. In the general population, being male is correlated with being atheist, and I haven't looked at the race-atheism correlations lately, but I wouldn't be surprised if being non-hispanic white is correlated with atheism.

[edit] Er, if by "the product" you were referring to the part where he says it's likely to be over 60%, then ignore this comment.

Comment author: alex_zag_al 01 December 2012 05:30:35PM 0 points [-]

good thing I read the last sentence first, yeah I was :p