Good survey, and I like the calibration questions: coming up with good ones is tough. But I suggest the following:
Create an “as happy as other people” for the happiness questions, instead of just “less” or “more”
Define “auto accident” better (I had one that sort of nicked my bumper)
Define “exercise” better (I walk everywhere I go, totalling at least an hour per day, but I don’t go to gyms. Does that count?)
In “have you earned more or less than those you grew up with?”, include an option for “I am in school”—I think a lot of us are earning less than our peers, but only because we’re in some kind of graduate education while they’re out making money
I thought that your survey was going to be the same sort of thing, so I didn’t develop mine further. Now that I see your survey is after something different, I’ll probably try mine again.
Oh. Damn. I should have communicated better back when I started toward this survey.
Your survey looked like “expert elicitation”—seeing what LW members think about controversial issues we actually care about, and especially what those most likely to have informed opinions think, as data on what might actually be true about those issues. I’d love to know the results but don’t plan to do it myself.
In this here survey, I’m after seeing what kinds of rationality do/don’t bear practical fruit in individuals’ lives. I’d long-run also like to investigate (though not with today’s survey) the degree to which there is/isn’t a single trait “rationality” that predicts accurate belief-formation across domains, how to measure such a trait, and what helps build that trait.
Thanks for the suggestions. I added a separate question asking if respondants are currently in school. I added a happiness option per your suggestion (which means the first 45 responses will be to a different questionnaire, but we can keep that in mind). Your other suggestions make sense, but I’m refraining to avoid changing questions midstream.
Should those of us that know we are in the first 45 responses retake the survey? It looks like a number of things have changed since I took it. My default assumption is no as I don’t want to duplicate, but I thought I’d ask.
It’s mostly the same, and better to have a couple slightly-different questions (with known populations that answered one vs. the other) than to have repeated rows.
Good survey, and I like the calibration questions: coming up with good ones is tough. But I suggest the following:
Create an “as happy as other people” for the happiness questions, instead of just “less” or “more”
Define “auto accident” better (I had one that sort of nicked my bumper)
Define “exercise” better (I walk everywhere I go, totalling at least an hour per day, but I don’t go to gyms. Does that count?)
In “have you earned more or less than those you grew up with?”, include an option for “I am in school”—I think a lot of us are earning less than our peers, but only because we’re in some kind of graduate education while they’re out making money
Yvain, I’m slightly off-topic here, but did you ever do anything with your LW survey? I’m curious to see peoples’ responses.
I thought that your survey was going to be the same sort of thing, so I didn’t develop mine further. Now that I see your survey is after something different, I’ll probably try mine again.
Oh. Damn. I should have communicated better back when I started toward this survey.
Your survey looked like “expert elicitation”—seeing what LW members think about controversial issues we actually care about, and especially what those most likely to have informed opinions think, as data on what might actually be true about those issues. I’d love to know the results but don’t plan to do it myself.
In this here survey, I’m after seeing what kinds of rationality do/don’t bear practical fruit in individuals’ lives. I’d long-run also like to investigate (though not with today’s survey) the degree to which there is/isn’t a single trait “rationality” that predicts accurate belief-formation across domains, how to measure such a trait, and what helps build that trait.
Thanks for the suggestions. I added a separate question asking if respondants are currently in school. I added a happiness option per your suggestion (which means the first 45 responses will be to a different questionnaire, but we can keep that in mind). Your other suggestions make sense, but I’m refraining to avoid changing questions midstream.
Should those of us that know we are in the first 45 responses retake the survey? It looks like a number of things have changed since I took it. My default assumption is no as I don’t want to duplicate, but I thought I’d ask.
Don’t duplicate, please.
It’s mostly the same, and better to have a couple slightly-different questions (with known populations that answered one vs. the other) than to have repeated rows.