Gleb_Tsipursky comments on Lesswrong 2016 Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 26 March 2016 08:06:25PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for putting this together, and I will share it through Intentional Insights channels

Comment author: gjm 27 March 2016 12:22:53AM 1 point [-]

With whom? My understanding is that this is intended to be a survey of people who either are or have been LW participants.

Comment author: Transfuturist 27 March 2016 12:42:42AM 5 points [-]

This is a diaspora survey, for the pan-rationalist community.

Comment author: gjm 27 March 2016 07:06:31PM 0 points [-]

Hence "have been". Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but usually what "X diaspora" means is "people who have been X but have now moved elsewhere".

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 March 2016 07:48:26PM 0 points [-]

Having more data is good regardles of the semantics.

Comment author: gjm 27 March 2016 09:15:17PM 1 point [-]

If what you want to know is "what characteristics do LW participants and ex-participants have" then you want to survey LW participants and ex-participants, and responses from other people will not help to answer that question. And if their survey answers don't clearly distinguish the other people from the participants and ex-participants, they will make the answers less useful. I forget how clearly the questions ought to make it possible to distinguish, but given that people make mistakes and don't fill everything in I suspect that in practice they distinguish much less than perfectly.

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 March 2016 09:42:27PM 1 point [-]

If what you want to know is "what characteristics do LW participants and ex-participants have" then you want to survey LW participants and ex-participants, and responses from other people will not help to answer that question.

I don't think that's true. Having a control group quite often does help you to know more.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 March 2016 01:05:05AM 3 points [-]

Not if the "data" is noise.

Comment author: Transfuturist 28 March 2016 11:59:00PM 1 point [-]

Most of those who haven't ever been on Less Wrong will provide data for that distinction. It isn't noise.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 27 March 2016 11:06:48PM 2 points [-]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but usually what "X diaspora" means is "people who have been X but have now moved elsewhere".

Or have ancestors from X.

I would probably consider a regular SSC commenter to be part of the LW diaspora even if they have never personally been a regular LW commenter. (Not so sure about InIn, as AFAICT Gleb Tsipursky hadn't been a LW regular before founding it.)

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 27 March 2016 01:42:12AM -1 points [-]

What transfuturist said :-)

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