CBHacking comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: ete 23 October 2014 01:34:01AM 69 points [-]

Filled in, but did not do digit lengths because I have no access to a printer or scanner in the near future.

Comment author: CBHacking 27 October 2014 11:00:14AM *  7 points [-]

Completed the survey (arguably the first thing I've actually contributed to LW, though I've discussed it at some length offline; this is my first comment ever). I have some degree of access to a scanner but not conveniently (same goes for a ruler actually; at best I may have a measuring tape somewhere I could find in under an hour's search). I filled out all the rest, aside from the N/A questions. Some of my answers have very low confidence (calibration percentage?), though.

A tip for those who don't have the equipment to perform the actual test: if you can verify that the lengths of the fingers on your left and right hands are equal (align the crease in the skin at the bases of the same finger on each hand, palm-to-palm), you can use the same technique to compare the D2:D4 lengths (one hand against the other). My fingers are the same length regardless of which hand (to the limit of my ability to measure without mechanical aid), and my D2:D4 ratio is somewhere in the range 1.00 < D2:D4 < 1.05, probably under 1.02 but definitely in excess of 1.00. As a cisgendered male, I guess I'm weird?

Oh, and some feedback: Part Four's "Moral Views" section could have used links (LW, WP, wherever) for those of us who aren't sure about the selection of moral philosophies. It is a question I had been exploring, but mostly just in a "judge each as they are presented to me" approach and I had not encountered all of them before.

Hello, LW community! I look forward to continuing to learn from you all and hopefully contributing something back.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 October 2014 08:24:11PM 3 points [-]

You should post this as a comment to the original post, not as as a reply to another comment! ;-)

Comment author: CBHacking 28 October 2014 01:26:52AM 0 points [-]

Thanks! Yeah, I did add a top-level comment, with a link to this one, but I realize that was sort of the backward way to do it.