This is a good idea. Will work on this now. Thanks! For “Knowledge Desert” questions (non-political questions where only one party will have a strong hunch about), I looked at patterns of co-following activity on Twitter and Reddit. So, for example, people who followed conservative Senators/Representatives on Twitter also tended to follow certain kinds of sports (e.g. baseball and UFC), and certain kinds of restaurants (e.g. Bob Evan’s Steakhouse and Cracker Barrel). Similarly, people who subscribed to /r/TheDonald also followed stereotypically conservative lifestyle sub-reddits. I’ve been having trouble finding a similar proxy for “False Belief” questions (political in content, where both parties have strong hunches that they’re correct).
@gwern, I was going through GSS data the other day, but was not quite sure of what you had in mind. There are variables that track political affiliation (e.g. party), and I can find what other variables are strongly predicted by party (e.g. geographical area). Was the idea to just find demographic items that are tightly correlated with partisan affiliation, and brain storm trivia questions based on the demographic characteristics?
One suggestion would be to datamine the GSS: look for items which most discriminate between partisan affiliation, which would reflect factual claims.
This is a good idea. Will work on this now. Thanks! For “Knowledge Desert” questions (non-political questions where only one party will have a strong hunch about), I looked at patterns of co-following activity on Twitter and Reddit. So, for example, people who followed conservative Senators/Representatives on Twitter also tended to follow certain kinds of sports (e.g. baseball and UFC), and certain kinds of restaurants (e.g. Bob Evan’s Steakhouse and Cracker Barrel). Similarly, people who subscribed to /r/TheDonald also followed stereotypically conservative lifestyle sub-reddits. I’ve been having trouble finding a similar proxy for “False Belief” questions (political in content, where both parties have strong hunches that they’re correct).
@gwern, I was going through GSS data the other day, but was not quite sure of what you had in mind. There are variables that track political affiliation (e.g. party), and I can find what other variables are strongly predicted by party (e.g. geographical area). Was the idea to just find demographic items that are tightly correlated with partisan affiliation, and brain storm trivia questions based on the demographic characteristics?