fubarobfusco comments on Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 27 December 2012 09:43:45PM 2 points [-]

Intelligence correlates with all the beliefs mentioned above largely because it confers resistance to conformity, and that's the real reason that polyamory and atheism is over-represented at lesswrong.

Regarding polyamory, it could also be founder effect — given that several of the top contributors are openly poly, that both men and women are among them, and so on.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 December 2012 11:28:39PM 1 point [-]

Alicorn used to be mono, and I think so did Eliezer; and the fraction of poly respondents was about the same in the last two surveys, which... some part of my brain tells me is evidence against your hypothesis, but now that I think about it I'm not sure why.