I would like to see the results made public, as well as seeing more surveys in general.
Don’t have a good indicator of how many people would worry about public data, but as the survey-taking group size increases (as I presume will happen over time on LW) it should become easier to remain unidentifiable.
Plenty of people voluntarily fill out surveys about themselves on social networking sites, and those of us concerned with anonymity probably wouldn’t be filling them out either way.
Don’t have a good indicator of how many people would worry about public data,
Some people are easier to identify than others (for example, if you’re female or from a particular country) and any person may feel uncomfortable about a particular question, so that even marginal concern about being identified with an odd view may skew results.
Consider making the data public in a way that gives the complete set of answers to each question, but doesn’t allow comparison of how one person answered multiple questions. (I’m sure there’s an easy way to say this, I don’t know it.) So in other words, you can’t tell that the person who answered “karma = −16” also answered “yes” to “superstitious”.
Any cross-correlations, of course, would need to be computed using the original, publicly unavailable data.
I would like to see the results made public, as well as seeing more surveys in general.
Don’t have a good indicator of how many people would worry about public data, but as the survey-taking group size increases (as I presume will happen over time on LW) it should become easier to remain unidentifiable.
Plenty of people voluntarily fill out surveys about themselves on social networking sites, and those of us concerned with anonymity probably wouldn’t be filling them out either way.
Some people are easier to identify than others (for example, if you’re female or from a particular country) and any person may feel uncomfortable about a particular question, so that even marginal concern about being identified with an odd view may skew results.
Consider making the data public in a way that gives the complete set of answers to each question, but doesn’t allow comparison of how one person answered multiple questions. (I’m sure there’s an easy way to say this, I don’t know it.) So in other words, you can’t tell that the person who answered “karma = −16” also answered “yes” to “superstitious”.
Any cross-correlations, of course, would need to be computed using the original, publicly unavailable data.