MondSemmel comments on Less Wrong Study Hall - Year 1 Retrospective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MondSemmel 15 March 2014 05:54:13PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks for putting this together!

When I read the survey results, I noticed some weirdness in the percentages to the questions "Usage", "Draw", "Temporal Habits (Weekdays)" and "Temporal Habits (Weekends)": The answers sum to 100%, but the response counts don't sum to 23. These questions seem to have offered respondents to pick multiple answers, so imo the percentage values shouldn't be 'X% of responses are option Z' but instead 'X% of the 23 respondents picked this option'.

e.g. Usage updated with this change:

Academic studies 18 78%

Personal projects 21 91%

Deliberate practice (e.g. learning guitar) 4 17%

Work for an employer 5 22%

Chores, paperwork, or other necessities 17 74%

Other 1 4%

Comment author: Error 15 March 2015 07:23:01PM *  0 points [-]

I'm putting together the 2015 one now (yeah, it's late), and noticed this while looking back here for suggestions/fixes. I agree with you but I'm not sure how painful it will be to get it right. Last year I just took the stats that Google gave me on the responses.