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Comment author: Username 05 November 2013 08:33:19PM *  1 point [-]
  • Under Race, either add 'Mixed' or change 'Other' to 'Other/Mixed'
  • Under Degree, change 'What is your highest degree earned?' to 'What is your highest degree earned or in progress?'
  • Year of Singularity question - seems to imply that singularity has not already happened. Depends on your definition of singularity.
  • Calibration IQ - Can we calibrate to test score if we haven't taken a legit IQ test? Might be worth normalizing all IQ's/Tests to a percentile score.
  • Smoking - Change this question from 'Do you smoke cigarettes?' to 'How often do you smoke cigarettes?', to fit with the other substance questions.
  • Normalize time intervals on substance questions.
  • Would be curious to have a question on frequency of marijuana/other drug use.
Comment author: komponisto 07 November 2013 08:43:48AM 5 points [-]

Under Degree, change 'What is your highest degree earned?' to 'What is your highest degree earned or in progress?'

Instead of that, I would recommend two questions: "What is your highest degree earned?" and "What is your highest degree attempted or in progress?"

Comment author: Larks 07 November 2013 04:52:35AM 0 points [-]

Depends on your definition of singularity.

We don't want people using different definitions! They can use the standard one used everywhere on this site.

More pertinently, I guess one might think that the world was currently being run by a discrete Sysop FAI.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2013 09:19:55PM 0 points [-]

Under Degree, change 'What is your highest degree earned?' to 'What is your highest degree earned or in progress?'

Why?

Comment author: Vaniver 05 November 2013 10:25:05PM 3 points [-]

It's moderately useful to be able to separate out PhD candidates from people that have just gotten Bachelors or Masters degrees, but I'm not sure it makes sense to clump them with people who have finished their PhDs, given the somewhat low survival rate.

Comment author: Username 05 November 2013 11:16:06PM 1 point [-]

More useful I'd say to filter those perusing bachelors degrees (me) from those who did not attend college after high school. There are gaps at other levels as well.

Comment author: Pfft 06 November 2013 05:43:52AM 4 points [-]

I think the survey already handles that, since it asks about current occupation, with "student" being one option -- a current student who graduated high school is presumably pursuing a BA. On the other hand, this fails to distinguish drop-outs from never-starteds, and master students from phd students.

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