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22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 December 2012 09:17:57PM 6 points [-]

Not if readers were "encouraged" to answer. If there were some way of knowing the population was representative (i.e. we selected at random and got back responses from everyone selected)... hm, possibly. I know that what people say at local LW gatherings has a stronger influence on me than what I hear online, but that could be for 'improper' reasons of face-to-face contact or greater personal familiarity.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 26 December 2012 03:42:26AM 2 points [-]

I know that what people say at local LW gatherings has a stronger influence on me than what I hear online, but that could be for 'improper' reasons of face-to-face contact or greater personal familiarity.

The Bay Area meetup is most definitely not-representative of LW in general. Heck, the Bay Area is an extreme outlier even by California, not to mention US or World, standards.

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