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Comment author: gwern 12 February 2016 05:53:35PM 14 points [-]

You could look on the surveys: what questions are closest to 50%?

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 13 February 2016 05:23:57AM 13 points [-]

From the 2014 Survey:

Polyamory:

  • 51.8% prefer monogamous, 15.1% prefer polyamorous (a lot uncertain)
  • But only 5.3% have more than 1 partner

Children:

  • 36.1% want more child(ren), 28.3% uncertain, 34.3% don't want more

Politics:

  • 38.9% Social Democratic, 27.7% Liberal, 25.2% Libertarian
  • Taxes: 3.14 +- 1.212 (1 = should be lower; 5 = should be higher)
  • Minimum Wage: 3.21 +- 1.359 (1 = should be lower; 5 = should be higher)
  • Social Justice: 3.15 +- 1.385 (1 = negative view; 5 = positive view)

Ethics:

  • 60% accept or lean towards consequentialism
  • Out of constructivism, error theory, non-cognitivism, subjectivism and substantive realism, none had more than a third

Cryo:

  • 24% don't want to, 36.7% considering, 30.8% signed up or want to be
  • Probability that a person frozen today will be revived: 22.3 +- 27.3% (median 10%)

Misc:

  • p(many worlds) = 47.6% +- 30.1%
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