You have the "Slate Star Codex" question under the "privacy" section. You may want to retitle the section to something like "top matter".
I'd like an "apolitical" choice for my political views. Especially here, there's likely a significant slice of the population who choose to not have any politics in the manner of Paul Graham, and thus equally don't identify at all, not even a little bit, with any of the given political options.
"If you were referred here by another blog—" "another" is needless.
Consider asking a "% positive" followup to total karma.
I'm going to ask for 4 options in the mental health section; there should be a separate category for people who weren't diagnosed with depression but believe they have had it.
I'd like more resolution in the extra credit section on politics. Just moving to a 7-scale would be a large improvement.
If the survey occurs near/during a HPMOR update (particularly a large update), your responses to the HPMOR questions will be skewed by people who would've read all of it, and will have read all of it, but aren't quite there yet because it just released.
The semicolon in "Hours of TV" should be a comma (sorry for being all nitpicky, that one just really bugs me.)
I think of Paul Graham as having very strong political opinions.
It's that time of year again. Actually, a little earlier than that time of year, but I'm pushing it ahead a little to match when Ozy and I expect to have more free time to process the results.
The first draft of the 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey is complete (see 2013 results here) .
You can see the survey below if you promise not to try to take the survey because it's not done yet and this is just an example!
2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey Draft
I want two things from you.
First, please critique this draft (it's much the same as last year's). Tell me if any questions are unclear, misleading, offensive, confusing, or stupid. Tell me if the survey is so unbearably long that you would never possibly take it. Tell me if anything needs to be rephrased.
Second, I am willing to include any question you want in the Super Extra Bonus Questions section, as long as it is not offensive, super-long-and-involved, or really dumb. Please post any questions you want there. Please be specific - not "Ask something about taxes" but give the exact question you want me to ask as well as all answer choices.
Try not to add more than a few questions per person, unless you're sure yours are really interesting. Please also don't add any questions that aren't very easily sort-able by a computer program like SPSS unless you can commit to sorting the answers yourself.
I will probably post the survey to Main and officially open it for responses sometime early next week.