I was going to redo the poll a few hours after I made it, but I didn’t think this was a big deal. Just choose I’m not in a relationship or other—neither is an interesting field anyway.
The problem is that you don’t know how different people who take the survey make their choices. Some people who are in a relationship that’s shorten then 2 years will answer one of the other options. That makes the whole data set difficult to interpret because you don’t know a a particular person made their decision.
Alright full disclosure—if you had just said “You should probably have included a “show me the answers” option”, I would had agreed and moved on. But instead your tone of ~Bah, everything is ruined!~ I found quite jarring*, especially since I had already gained some useful and surprising information off of despite its limitations. This isn’t a particularly scientific poll for many reasons, I don’t know how to tease apart strategies that are popular with strategies that lead to long term success which is what the qualifier was for—if I figure out a way to do this some day, I’ll be more careful in its implementation.
I think that LW is about furthering high epistemic standards, especieally when it comes to applied rationality. Applied rationality is at least as important than the specific subject matter.
Additionally I think voicing this criticism this way increases the chances that people who read the criticising to future polls at higher standards.
I was going to redo the poll a few hours after I made it, but I didn’t think this was a big deal. Just choose I’m not in a relationship or other—neither is an interesting field anyway.
The problem is that you don’t know how different people who take the survey make their choices. Some people who are in a relationship that’s shorten then 2 years will answer one of the other options. That makes the whole data set difficult to interpret because you don’t know a a particular person made their decision.
Alright full disclosure—if you had just said “You should probably have included a “show me the answers” option”, I would had agreed and moved on. But instead your tone of ~Bah, everything is ruined!~ I found quite jarring*, especially since I had already gained some useful and surprising information off of despite its limitations. This isn’t a particularly scientific poll for many reasons, I don’t know how to tease apart strategies that are popular with strategies that lead to long term success which is what the qualifier was for—if I figure out a way to do this some day, I’ll be more careful in its implementation.
*I’m not sure why, this LessWrong after all.
I think that LW is about furthering high epistemic standards, especieally when it comes to applied rationality. Applied rationality is at least as important than the specific subject matter.
Additionally I think voicing this criticism this way increases the chances that people who read the criticising to future polls at higher standards.