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Maybe add Poland to the answers to the Country question -- last year it got more votes than France or New Zealand.
I'd use “Male”/“Female”/“Other” as answers to the Sex question and “Man”/“Woman”/“Other” as answer to the Gender question.
Why is “Number of Current Partners” write-in and “Children” multiple choice?
I'd split the “No” answer in “More Children” into “Not now” and “Never”.
I'd add “Apatheism” and “Ignosticism” to the Religious Views question, either as separate answers or as “Agnosticism/Apatheism/Ignosticism” (cf. “Don't know/Don't care/Don't understand”).
“Roman Catholic” and “Other Christian” is probably the weirdest possible way of cutting it. I'd have “Christian (Orthodox)”, “Christian (Catholic)”, “Christian (Protestant)” and maybe “Christian (other)”. (And maybe add “Atheist”, which got quite a few answers last year.)
Stylistically I'd prefer “None of the above” to “Other / no answer”, but whatever.
Would it be technically possible to have “%” displayed right after the write-in fields in the probability questions?
Maybe something more specific than “intelligent” in the “P(Aliens)” question -- would octopuses, crows, dolphins, or chimps count? A possibility could be “civilization” rather than “intelligent life”.
“Greater than 90% of humanity” sounds weird to me -- I'd use “more”.
“Without checking a source” should be written in the previous question, not (or not just) that one.
I'd cull the answers to “Alternative Alternative Politics” to only those which got at least 10 votes last year.
Maybe have a few multiple-choice answers in the Primary Language question beside the write-in one.
It makes a lot of sense to me, there are about as many Roman Catholics as there are all other Christians.
But LW is skewed more toward historically Protestant countries. I wouldn't be surprised if the breakdown actually has slightly more Protestant-background than Catholic-background.
This is a good point! On the last (2012) survey 55% of the respondents where from the US, and another 20% from Britain, Canada and Australia, followed by 5% from Germany. So at least 80% of the posters are from countries where Catholicism is significant but not dominant denomination among Christians.
In particular, 43.6% of respondents picked “Other Christian” last year.
Sure, but there are sizeable numbers of both Orthodox and Protestant Christians, and AFAICR they have relatively little in common that Catholics don't also share.
Agreed, and LW seems to be especially big in countries where Protestantism is more common than Catholicism (US, Canada, Northern Europe). Protestant background might actually be larger in absolute numbers than Catholic.