I study computer engineering (which is about arranging transistors on silicon to make computer hardware). I checked “Computers (other academic, computer science),” rather than “Engineering,” even though computer engineering is not computer science, because I thought that category was more specific than engineering, and less specific than the category including only computer science.
But this was kind of unclear.
On the question “Given that no label can completely describe a person’s political views, with which of these labels do you MOST identify?”
I am probably halfway between liberal and libertarian. So I flipped a coin and picked liberal.
For the calibration IQ question, I could have given my probability that my real IQ was higher than the median IQ here. But then you wouldn’t be able to check it against anything to determine my calibration, because I have never taken a real IQ test and left the field blank. Maybe you should put a different question instead of that calibration one?
For the Hours Writing question, it says schoolwork counts. Does code count, if written for schoolwork? I guessed no. Do answers to problems from textbooks that are kind of half-math, half-writing count? I guessed yes.
The “Anonymity” question should be broken into two. It doesn’t give you an option for “It would be easy to find my real name, and I am unhappy about that.”
I tried to take the IQ test, and had 35 seconds left, when Flash plugin in my browser crashed. I was about to take a screenshot and save my answers, and re-enter them after reloading the page, but the tab went dark. Retaking it would probably not give good results now.
The “Anonymity” question should be broken into two. It doesn’t give you an option for “It would be easy to find my real name, and I am unhappy about that.”
Yes. In my case, the best answer would be: “It would be non-trivial but still relatively easy for someone who doesn’t know me in meatspace to find out my full name and my Facebook profile from what I write on LW, but I can’t think of why anyone could be bothered to do that and even if it happened it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. It would bother me if certain people who do know me in meatspace read some of the things I write on LW knowing army1987 is me, and it would be nearly obvious for anyone who knows me in meatspace that army1987 is me, but I think it’s pretty unlikely for one of those people to stumble upon LW so I’m not too worried.”
I study computer engineering (which is about arranging transistors on silicon to make computer hardware). I checked “Computers (other academic, computer science),” rather than “Engineering,” even though computer engineering is not computer science, because I thought that category was more specific than engineering, and less specific than the category including only computer science.
But this was kind of unclear.
On the question “Given that no label can completely describe a person’s political views, with which of these labels do you MOST identify?”
I am probably halfway between liberal and libertarian. So I flipped a coin and picked liberal.
For the calibration IQ question, I could have given my probability that my real IQ was higher than the median IQ here. But then you wouldn’t be able to check it against anything to determine my calibration, because I have never taken a real IQ test and left the field blank. Maybe you should put a different question instead of that calibration one?
For the Hours Writing question, it says schoolwork counts. Does code count, if written for schoolwork? I guessed no. Do answers to problems from textbooks that are kind of half-math, half-writing count? I guessed yes.
The “Anonymity” question should be broken into two. It doesn’t give you an option for “It would be easy to find my real name, and I am unhappy about that.”
I tried to take the IQ test, and had 35 seconds left, when Flash plugin in my browser crashed. I was about to take a screenshot and save my answers, and re-enter them after reloading the page, but the tab went dark. Retaking it would probably not give good results now.
Yes. In my case, the best answer would be: “It would be non-trivial but still relatively easy for someone who doesn’t know me in meatspace to find out my full name and my Facebook profile from what I write on LW, but I can’t think of why anyone could be bothered to do that and even if it happened it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. It would bother me if certain people who do know me in meatspace read some of the things I write on LW knowing army1987 is me, and it would be nearly obvious for anyone who knows me in meatspace that army1987 is me, but I think it’s pretty unlikely for one of those people to stumble upon LW so I’m not too worried.”