First off I think that at less wrong you could get better results by including an option on some question that says something to the effect of: those options are such a poor match if I picked one it would make the results worse/add more noise than signal/you would actually lose information if you interpreted it at face value.
With what race do you most identify? Why is this question about racial identification rather than ontological membership? If I’m white but I totally think black people are awesome the instructions tell me to put black which you probably don’t want. Also (sort of) it would be nice to have an option not to racially identify.
With what gender do you primarily identify? This includes an option for other but no option for none. I wouldn’t expect none to be much less common than other.
politics question should have an option or two options for politically averse/uninterested. The current setup unecessarrilly railroads people into appearing to have poltical identifications. The thing at the start of my post would be especially useful for this question.
The time in community asserts that the user is part of the less wrong community or requires the somewhat creative answer of 0. Add a do you consider yourself part of the lesswrong community or an instruction to put 0 if you don’t consider yourself part of the lesswrong community.
If I’m white but I totally think black people are awesome the instructions tell me to put black which you probably don’t want.
I wouldn’t normally interpret identify that way in that context—more like ‘consider yourself a member of’.
The time in community asserts that the user is part of the less wrong community or requires the somewhat creative answer of 0.
In the last survey I took that to mean ‘when did you post in the Welcome thread’, and I think I’m going to either do the same or divide my total karma by my last-30-days karma for this survey, but I agree that whatever it’s meant to mean should be made more explicit.
First off I think that at less wrong you could get better results by including an option on some question that says something to the effect of: those options are such a poor match if I picked one it would make the results worse/add more noise than signal/you would actually lose information if you interpreted it at face value.
With what race do you most identify? Why is this question about racial identification rather than ontological membership? If I’m white but I totally think black people are awesome the instructions tell me to put black which you probably don’t want. Also (sort of) it would be nice to have an option not to racially identify.
With what gender do you primarily identify? This includes an option for other but no option for none. I wouldn’t expect none to be much less common than other.
politics question should have an option or two options for politically averse/uninterested. The current setup unecessarrilly railroads people into appearing to have poltical identifications. The thing at the start of my post would be especially useful for this question.
The time in community asserts that the user is part of the less wrong community or requires the somewhat creative answer of 0. Add a do you consider yourself part of the lesswrong community or an instruction to put 0 if you don’t consider yourself part of the lesswrong community.
I wouldn’t normally interpret identify that way in that context—more like ‘consider yourself a member of’.
In the last survey I took that to mean ‘when did you post in the Welcome thread’, and I think I’m going to either do the same or divide my total karma by my last-30-days karma for this survey, but I agree that whatever it’s meant to mean should be made more explicit.