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Larks 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: Larks 19 October 2012 06:48:31PM *  4 points [-]

"Number of Partners" should probably either read "Number of current partners" or "Prefered number of partners" for clarity.

Standard complaints about politics: Can we not use the americanised version of "Liberal"? In most of the world "Liberal" means classical liberal. (You also made a small spelling mistake in this one). Equally, Communism is a type of Socialism, and socialists aren't all liberal. Why not just have separate axis for social and economic liberality? And what about prediction markets / reactionaries?

P(X-Risk) should perhaps be called P(Not X-Risk), or re-word the question to reverse it.

Children could be split into "how many now" and "how many desired". Bad people can give a lower answer to the second than the first.

Questions:

  • 1 box or 2 box
  • Income