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

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Comment author: gwern 11 October 2014 05:41:29PM *  29 points [-]
  • I suggest a basilisk question, as usual.
  • I'd also like OCEAN/Big Five restored. The results from last time weren't very definitive and more data would be helpful.
  • Given the recent SSC debate on how effective MIRI is, it might be interesting to ask something about opinions of MIRI's effectiveness in pursuing its mission: just asking how much people donated is insufficient since one might donate faute de mieux, and IIRC the modal donation is $0 in the first place.
  • Perhaps the AI projection questions could be replaced by the same question-set used in "Future progress in artificial intelligence: A poll among experts", VC Müller, N Bostrom? Buys one comparability with their survey responses; it would be very interesting and intriguing if LWers turned out to be less extreme.
Comment author: Yvain 12 October 2014 03:34:04AM 4 points [-]

Any particular implementation details on OCEAN? Exact same as last time?

Comment author: VincentYu 13 October 2014 01:05:33PM *  6 points [-]

I suggest including the Big Five Inventory (BFI) in the survey itself. I've created an example of this on Google Forms. (I've reordered the inventory such that the first 11 items constitute the BFI-10, so that respondents can choose between the 44-item and 11-item versions).

The BFI is the inventory that was used in the online test to which the 2012 LW census linked. See also my comment about this in the 2012 LW census thread.

Comment author: peter_hurford 13 October 2014 03:01:18PM 1 point [-]

Why not directly include the 10-item Big Five in the survey itself?

Comment author: gwern 12 October 2014 06:26:01PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure. Didn't we have some odd results last time? It may be better to use a different website to see if the aggregate results or the results from retakers differ with last time.

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