You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Kaj_Sotala comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census Survey: Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: Yvain 19 October 2012 01:12AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (479)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 19 October 2012 04:38:06PM 9 points [-]

If you're going with the "married, divorced..." etc. set of choices, I don't think "single" should be in there - rather it should be just "never married". Otherwise people who are in a relationship but not married or cohabiting will be unable to answer anything.

Comment author: thomblake 19 October 2012 06:17:13PM *  3 points [-]

I agree. I erred on the side of industry standard, but I endorse your change.

However, that now seems like it's asking too many questions in one, since the cohabitation question is irrelevant to whether one is divorced etc.