Desrtopa comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jamesf 19 January 2014 03:32:04AM 41 points [-]

Next survey, I'd be interested in seeing statistics involving:

  • Recreational drug use
  • Quantified Self-related activities
  • Social media use
  • Self-perceived physical attractiveness on the 1-10 scale
  • Self-perceived holistic attractiveness on the 1-10 scale
  • Personal computer's operating system

Excellent write-up and I look forward to next year's.

Comment author: Desrtopa 21 January 2014 09:48:26PM 5 points [-]

Self-perceived physical attractiveness on the 1-10 scale Self-perceived holistic attractiveness on the 1-10 scale

While I don't remember the precise level, I would note that there are studies suggesting a rather surprisingly low level of correlation between self perceived attractiveness and attractiveness as perceived by others, and if we could induce a sufficient sample of participants to submit images of themselves to be rated by others (possibly in a context where they would not themselves find out the rating they received,) I think the comparison of those two values would be much more interesting than self-perceived attractiveness alone.

Comment author: jamesf 22 January 2014 04:44:13AM 0 points [-]

That's kind of the idea. I'm more interested in correlations involving self-perceived attractiveness, particularly the holistic one, than correlations involving measured physical attractiveness. It's a nice proxy for self-esteem.

Anonymity is a bit of a problem, though I suppose a pool of people that are as likely as your average human to know anyone who uses LW could be wrangled with some effort.

Comment author: Desrtopa 22 January 2014 03:12:39PM 0 points [-]

I'd be interested in seeing how the relationship among less wrong users between self perceived attractiveness and attractiveness as perceived by others compares to the relationship in the general population.