Lumifer comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tog 02 May 2014 04:23:53PM 5 points [-]

Agreed that as many people as possible should take it. The first question asks whether you self-identify as an 'EA', and clarifies that we'd also like the responses of those who don't.

Comment author: Lumifer 02 May 2014 04:32:49PM 6 points [-]

For people who are not EAs, a lot of questions make little sense.

Comment author: thebestwecan 02 May 2014 06:55:59PM 2 points [-]

Yes. Many non-EA results will include lots of "unsure/unfamiliar with the options" responses.

Comment author: peter_hurford 02 May 2014 05:00:04PM 3 points [-]

If the questions don't make sense, then either answer them as best you can or don't answer them. We're just looking to make sure that we minimize as much as possible our "I'm not really that EA, so I won't take the survey" sample bias.

Comment author: mare-of-night 12 May 2014 01:16:14PM 1 point [-]

I appreciate that you did this - I wanted to give you information, but I'm also not very EA and kind of insecure about that, so I probably would have quit midway through the survey if there were too many questions that seemed like they weren't for me.