Vaniver comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 September 2014 02:03:45PM *  0 points [-]

The time on LW correlated negatively with IQ... (and getting the high IQ people to come is difficult).

I thought we discovered this was driven by outliers in people who spent very little time on LW. (I'm on my phone, or I would check.)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 September 2014 10:53:41PM 0 points [-]

Do you have any recollections on the source for that discovery?

Is the full survey data available, so that we could look at the distribution?

Comment author: Vaniver 11 September 2014 02:42:26AM 0 points [-]

Yes; the OP has a link to the 2013 survey data in the last line. Also note survey results for 2012, 2011, and 2009. Here's my comment on this year's describing what happened last year, and while this is relevant I have a memory of looking at the data, making a graph, and calling it 'trapzeoidal,' but I don't know where that is, and I don't see the image uploaded where I probably would have uploaded it- so I guess I never published that analysis. Anyway, I recommend you take a look at it yourself.

Comment author: private_messaging 10 September 2014 11:41:00AM *  0 points [-]

Dunno, maybe. In any case 'repelling lower IQ people' hypothesis seems like it ought to yield a corresponding correlation between IQ and participation, but the opposite or no correlation is observed. (albeit the writing clarity here is quite seriously low - using private terminology instead of existing words, etc. which many may find annoying and perhaps inaccessible)