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Sarunas comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Yvain 11 October 2014 06:39AM

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Comment author: Sarunas 12 October 2014 12:16:28PM *  4 points [-]

it was bad to make people admit to illegal activities

You could use randomized response method for this question or any other controversial question (for the type of questions that are technically feasible, of course).

Comment author: Vulture 13 October 2014 06:10:16PM *  1 point [-]

Wouldn't that make it pretty much useless for anything other than estimating the number of people who would answer in a certain way?