After reading LW more consistently for a couple weeks, I started recognizing rationalists in other parts of The Internet and wondered what were common social medias. My guesses are Twitter, Hacker News, StackExchange, and Quora in about that order, and I will eventually attempt to confirm this more rigorously, be it by demographic survey or username correlation (much less reliable).
For now, I was particularly interested in finding LW users that are also on Hacker News, so I quickly queried both sites and found ~25% of active LW users had Hacker News accounts (with a relatively large margin of error, due to the way I biased username selection to account for different naming conventions and given n=355). Here’s the extremely quick script in case anyone has any methodological critiques or improvements: https://gist.github.com/belkarx/33cfdda5b6c52ea45198d0bc427fa990
After reading LW more consistently for a couple weeks, I started recognizing rationalists in other parts of The Internet and wondered what were common social medias. My guesses are Twitter, Hacker News, StackExchange, and Quora in about that order, and I will eventually attempt to confirm this more rigorously, be it by demographic survey or username correlation (much less reliable).
For now, I was particularly interested in finding LW users that are also on Hacker News, so I quickly queried both sites and found ~25% of active LW users had Hacker News accounts (with a relatively large margin of error, due to the way I biased username selection to account for different naming conventions and given n=355). Here’s the extremely quick script in case anyone has any methodological critiques or improvements: https://gist.github.com/belkarx/33cfdda5b6c52ea45198d0bc427fa990