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Yvain 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: Yvain 21 October 2012 09:55:46PM *  1 point [-]

I am doubtful that switching to your version will get any fewer complaints or be any better than the old version, but on the principle of cheap testing I will include the second question. Please tell me exactly what you want for this new question, eg do you want sentence-length descriptions of each position and if so what are they?

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 21 October 2012 11:00:38PM *  0 points [-]

Here's one possible version, no description at all, just asks for what label you would assign:

Which of the following labels would you consider to best represent your political positions?

  • Reactionary
  • Conservative
  • Progressive
  • Libertarian
  • Communist
Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2012 11:22:12PM 2 points [-]

That has the problem that different people will interpret "Libertarian" in different ways.