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

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

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 19 October 2012 06:22:31PM 6 points [-]

I find it way US-centric and pigeon-holing of people, but those things are probably unfixable for anything that could be called a survey. If possible, make a narrow AI to interview subjects and compute amplitude distributions in personspace or something, it's the only way something like this could ever satisfy everyone.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 October 2012 10:09:43AM 1 point [-]

I find it way US-centric and pigeon-holing of people, but those things are probably unfixable for anything that could be called a survey.

Agreed about the pigeon-holing, but why is the US-centrism unfixable?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 20 October 2012 03:17:24PM 1 point [-]

Because I wrote the post quickly and didn't distinguish properly between being possible to fix in theory and the probability of actually being fixed in practice.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2012 06:38:58PM 0 points [-]

C'mon, I think it wouldn't be unfeasible to reduce the US-centrism to a negligible level, if one seriously tried.