Take an outside view. How would you feel about someone making a survey here about the fraction of people who thought that the US government had covered up aliens at Roswell, or that the Illuminati had assassinated JFK, or that Princess Diana was killed by British intelligence?
And now imagine someone doing that after they’ve spent multiple years here unsuccessfully trying to persuade people of that conspiracy, and have been given specific suggestions of how they might be able to actually get people to listen and then hasn’t followed up on those suggestions.
US government had covered up aliens at Roswell, or that the Illuminati had assassinated JFK, or that Princess Diana was killed by British intelligence?
A survey like that with a single disjunctive question could be good. With those three I’m still saying no, though.
I downvoted because it had nothing directly to do with rationality, and no justification was given for why it might. (N.B. “Finding out the truth of things is about rationality” isn’t sufficient justification. The point of LessWrong is to develop rationality in general, not to answer questions one by one.)
Probably because they don’t want the topic being discussed here at all, or because they don’t want to discuss it with you. (I haven’t voted and have participated in the survey.)
That’s fine with me. If someone doesn’t want to discuss it just ignore the topic then, btw there have been several about 9/11 so I think it is only fair to take a survey and see how LWers in general think about it.
Excuse me? I’m taking a survey, that’s all, I find it strange that people would downvote a honest effort to collect information.
Take an outside view. How would you feel about someone making a survey here about the fraction of people who thought that the US government had covered up aliens at Roswell, or that the Illuminati had assassinated JFK, or that Princess Diana was killed by British intelligence?
And now imagine someone doing that after they’ve spent multiple years here unsuccessfully trying to persuade people of that conspiracy, and have been given specific suggestions of how they might be able to actually get people to listen and then hasn’t followed up on those suggestions.
A survey like that with a single disjunctive question could be good. With those three I’m still saying no, though.
I downvoted because it had nothing directly to do with rationality, and no justification was given for why it might. (N.B. “Finding out the truth of things is about rationality” isn’t sufficient justification. The point of LessWrong is to develop rationality in general, not to answer questions one by one.)
Probably because they don’t want the topic being discussed here at all, or because they don’t want to discuss it with you. (I haven’t voted and have participated in the survey.)
That’s fine with me. If someone doesn’t want to discuss it just ignore the topic then, btw there have been several about 9/11 so I think it is only fair to take a survey and see how LWers in general think about it.
Some people (myself included) vote down what they prefer not to see here, even if it is fair to post it.