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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on LessWrong Experience of Flavours - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 24 April 2015 03:14:56PM 4 points [-]

Interesting idea. Could be made into a poll to measure breath and variability of preference via a poll.

I will just plain take your points and make each into a poll and add some of my own. Everybody is invited to vote the their preference on a 1 to 5 scale (as many as you like, no need to consider all, the liste got quite long):

I like spicy things I dislike spicy things

I like chilli I dislike chilli

I like wasabi I dislike wasabi

I like horseraddish I dislike horseraddish

I like sweets I dislike sweets

I'm addicted to sugar

Very much Not at all

I like chocolate I dislike chocolate

I like dark chocolate I dislike dark chocolate

I like licorice I dislike licorice

I like fruits I dislike fruits

I like vegetables I dislike vegetables

I like whole grain products I dislike whole grain products

I like hot dishes I dislike hot dishes

I like cold dishes I dislike cold dishes

I like creamy/squishy/souce-like food I dislike creamy/squishy/souce-like food

I like hard/firm food I dislike hard/firm food

I like crispy food I dislike crispy food

I like beefy food I dislike beefy food

I like ice cream I dislike ice cream

I like cheese I dislike cheese

I like meat I dislike meat

I like fish I dislike fish

I like honey I dislike honey

I like milk I dislike milk

I drink a lot of water I drink water only as part of other drinks

I like coffee I dislike coffee

I like tea I dislike tea

I like to drink coffeinated beverages I don't like to drink coffeinated beverages

I like fruit juice I dislike fruit juice

I like hot drinks I dislike hot drinks

I like cold drinks I dislike cold drinks

I like fruit juice I dislike fruit juice

I like alcoholic beverages I dislike alcoholic beverages

I like the initial effects of alcohol I dislike initial effects of alcohol

I like the ultimate effects of alcohol I dislike ultimate effects of alcohol

I like bitter tastes I dislike bitter tastes

I like sour tastes I dislike sour tastes

I like salty tastes I dislike salty tastes

I like starchy tastes I dislike starchytastes

Submitting...

Comment author: gjm 25 April 2015 03:00:50PM 6 points [-]

It would appear that five people have different opinions of fruit juice and fruit juice.

Comment author: dxu 25 April 2015 09:12:44PM *  4 points [-]

Count me among them. (My actual answer would have been between two poll options--a 4.5/5, so to speak, if I were rating it out of 5--so I selected the leftmost option in the first question and the second leftmost option in the second to average it out.)

Comment author: Dorikka 25 April 2015 06:16:34PM 3 points [-]

This sort of thing should really be done on all polls, just in case people have very small error bars around the results...

Comment author: Kindly 25 April 2015 04:27:25PM 1 point [-]

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I haven't done the responsible thing and plotted these (or, indeed, done anything else besides take whatever correlation coefficient my software has seen fit to provide me with), so take with a grain of salt.

Comment author: bbleeker 25 April 2015 01:42:49PM 1 point [-]

I like salty, sour, hot, spicy. I like sweet too, but not as much. I don't mind a little bitter. In general, I like strong tastes: the very darkest chocolate, old strong cheese. I like almost all fruit, vegetables and fish, and most meat. I dislike bland, slippery things like fat, butter, new cheese, milk. I'll eat ice cream, but I don't really like it. The two most disgusting things I've ever tried to eat were tripe and cottage cheese. Natto was pretty disgusting too, but not as bad. I drink quite a lot of coffee, carbonated water and sugar-free soft drinks. Until recently, I used to drink a lot of alcohol too, but nowadays I'm saving that for parties (of which I don't have many), as it has a lot of calories and is bad for my blood pressure.

Comment author: jam_brand 25 April 2015 05:52:28AM *  1 point [-]

Asking about people's "preference on a 1 to 5 scale" (rather than, say, "their appreciation on a -2 to +2 scale" or "on a scale from strongly dislike to strongly like"), then seeing the next line begin "I like spicy things", I nearly interpreted the far left to be "I like this only a little" and the far right to be "I like this a lot".

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 24 April 2015 04:08:44PM *  1 point [-]

Fruit juice is twinned. Can you edit these polls?

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 April 2015 07:14:04PM 5 points [-]

That's no problem it gives a test whether people respond the same way both times.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 24 April 2015 11:29:26PM 2 points [-]

Actually they significantly don't.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 24 April 2015 11:25:45PM 0 points [-]

Yes, sorry. I noticed, but editing polls is not unproblematic.

Comment author: Kindly 24 April 2015 06:32:14PM 0 points [-]

I believe editing polls resets them, so there's no reason to do it if it's just an aesthetically unpleasant mistake that doesn't hurt the accuracy of the results.

Comment author: Elo 25 April 2015 10:57:53AM 0 points [-]

Unfortunately I expect this poll to noise itself out of usefulness. for example. person A dislikes spicy and likes sweet. Person B dislikes sweet and likes spicy. this poll will show one vote 1 for sweet, one vote 5 for sweet, one vote 1 for spicy and one vote 5 for spicy.

There would have to be a form that can add another dimension to the results to see any correlation between results. This also limits people's opportunity to comment on what might have caused them to have certain preferences...

Comment author: ChristianKl 25 April 2015 12:38:36PM 5 points [-]

The pool provides raw data. It's possible to download that data and see what correlates with what. It just needs a slight bit of R coding.

Comment author: Elo 25 April 2015 11:12:40PM 1 point [-]

Thats awesome! I didn't realise!