ChristianKl comments on Taking control of your happiness and productivity - LessWrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 23 March 2015 05:30:14PM -1 points [-]

Saying that language is ill-defined dodges the issue. People do have beliefs and those beliefs are made up of language.

Maybe it's helpful to think about the question as checking aliefs. Which of the two resonates more? Which produces a bigger feeling of agreement?

Working with people who are in denial about their beliefs they have because they focus on a intellectual answer to such a question can be hard.

Agreement with such statements is not informed by factual or moral questions, but is a function of definitions of their terms and can't be evaluated when the terms remain undefined.

That's also not the point of the exercise. The exercise is about taking account for the beliefs that the reader holds

Comment author: Lumifer 23 March 2015 06:06:19PM *  2 points [-]

Which of the two resonates more? Which produces a bigger feeling of agreement?

Such things can be easily and dramatically changed by minor adjustments to expressions used -- that has been demonstrated repeatedly and pollsters know that very well.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 March 2015 10:04:06PM 0 points [-]

The point of a psychological test instead getting polling results. It doesn't make sense to treat the test the same way as an opinion poll.