zedzed comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Yvain 11 October 2014 06:39AM

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Comment author: zedzed 11 October 2014 06:13:01PM 2 points [-]

You have the "Slate Star Codex" question under the "privacy" section. You may want to retitle the section to something like "top matter".

I'd like an "apolitical" choice for my political views. Especially here, there's likely a significant slice of the population who choose to not have any politics in the manner of Paul Graham, and thus equally don't identify at all, not even a little bit, with any of the given political options.

"If you were referred here by another blog—" "another" is needless.

Consider asking a "% positive" followup to total karma.

I'm going to ask for 4 options in the mental health section; there should be a separate category for people who weren't diagnosed with depression but believe they have had it.

I'd like more resolution in the extra credit section on politics. Just moving to a 7-scale would be a large improvement.

If the survey occurs near/during a HPMOR update (particularly a large update), your responses to the HPMOR questions will be skewed by people who would've read all of it, and will have read all of it, but aren't quite there yet because it just released.

The semicolon in "Hours of TV" should be a comma (sorry for being all nitpicky, that one just really bugs me.)

Comment author: gjm 11 October 2014 09:07:06PM 2 points [-]

Consider asking a "% positive" followup to total karma.

Possible drawback: this will make it easier to work out who any given response is from, which some people might be uneasy about.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 October 2014 03:11:09AM 1 point [-]

I think of Paul Graham as having very strong political opinions.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 October 2014 08:33:38PM 1 point [-]

Instead of an specific apolitical choice, simply "others" might be useful.

Comment author: Vulture 11 October 2014 08:36:28PM *  1 point [-]

I think that "None" and "Other" should probably be kept separate options.