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army1987 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: [deleted] 28 October 2012 11:35:14PM 1 point [-]

"If you'd had an "other" option on the politics question, would you have used it?"

Or “is there any political label with which you identify more than with any of the five above”?

Comment author: Epiphany 28 October 2012 11:59:00PM 0 points [-]

Hmm I like this one better. (:

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2012 12:47:58AM 0 points [-]

OTOH, I've changed my mind and now like yours better -- but I'd replace "other" with "none of the above".

Comment author: Epiphany 29 October 2012 01:03:05AM 0 points [-]

Really? Why?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2012 01:54:31AM 0 points [-]

Maybe there are people who don't identify with any political label at all, so not even "other" would be an accurate answer for them.

Comment author: Epiphany 29 October 2012 02:18:07AM 0 points [-]

Hmmm. But if we were to reword your question to something like: "How would you describe your political views if different from the above?" (three words) then that would make everyone happy.

Except Yvain who would have to figure out how to display those results. That might annoy him.

If Yvain won't want to display all the results, then I think you're right with a "none of the above" question. Otherwise I'd rather see a box where you can fill it in how you want.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 October 2012 03:08:05PM 0 points [-]

Yep. Let's not be the last straw that makes Yvain freak out and never open the survey! ;-)