Seems redundant: “Religious Background What is your family’s religious background, as of the last time your family practiced a religion?”
Maybe one of the aliens questions is enough.
P(Pastafarianism)
“Best Virtue Which of the twelve virtues of rationality do you think the LessWrong community scores highest on at the moment?” I don’t really understand the question. Same for “worst virtue”.
The willingness-to-pay for the sequences, hpmor and the codex. This could just be asked outside of the survey.
ideas for LW April Fools’ Day (I think you don’t need a centralized question for that.)
“Tax Opinion”: I think it’s not useful to answer “higher” or “lower”
I’m torn on Family Religion and Religious Background. On the one hand, those questions have been in every census I have data for and I like being able to spot long term trends. On the other hand, it’s basically tracking whether your family changed faiths since you grew up and that’s not super interesting on its own. Okay, so what’s the ideal merged form of that question look like? (Question addressed to anyone including me, I don’t have a good idea right now but I’ll come back to it later.)
I will defend the pastafarianism as mostly a joke intended to make people smile.
also it’s the replacement lizardman constant question, though it’s not a great lizardman question.
Most of section 10: LessWrong Team Questions is kiiiiind of acting as placeholders for the team to suggest which questions are most important to them. Dropping the virtue questions makes sense, anything that suggests going elsewhere to read a thing before coming back is dubious anyway. In contrast, I’m curious what shape you have in mind for the willingness-to-pay questions; this kind of broad survey seems a good place to ask that kind of thing. I’ve been dipping my toes into the publishing world a little lately, and there’s a lot of different ways to aim at different price points.
LW April Fools’ Day. . . idk, seemed funny to me when I was looking at Ben’s list, but it’s not a question I’m personally curious to know the answer to.
“Tax Opinion” and “Great Stagnation” are on their way out unless anyone shows up to defend them, possibly almost all of section 14: bonus politics questions should just be swapped out for politics questions people are currently interested in.
I think willingness-to-pay questions are in general not very reliable, because they are hypothetical. Moreover, they might give the survey a marketing flavor.
Deletion suggestions:
Seems redundant: “Religious Background What is your family’s religious background, as of the last time your family practiced a religion?”
Maybe one of the aliens questions is enough.
P(Pastafarianism)
“Best Virtue
Which of the twelve virtues of rationality do you think the LessWrong community scores highest on at the moment?”
I don’t really understand the question. Same for “worst virtue”.
The willingness-to-pay for the sequences, hpmor and the codex. This could just be asked outside of the survey.
ideas for LW April Fools’ Day (I think you don’t need a centralized question for that.)
“Tax Opinion”: I think it’s not useful to answer “higher” or “lower”
“Great stagnation”: seems to specific
I’m torn on Family Religion and Religious Background. On the one hand, those questions have been in every census I have data for and I like being able to spot long term trends. On the other hand, it’s basically tracking whether your family changed faiths since you grew up and that’s not super interesting on its own. Okay, so what’s the ideal merged form of that question look like? (Question addressed to anyone including me, I don’t have a good idea right now but I’ll come back to it later.)
I will defend the pastafarianism as mostly a joke intended to make people smile.
also it’s the replacement lizardman constant question, though it’s not a great lizardman question.
Most of section 10: LessWrong Team Questions is kiiiiind of acting as placeholders for the team to suggest which questions are most important to them. Dropping the virtue questions makes sense, anything that suggests going elsewhere to read a thing before coming back is dubious anyway. In contrast, I’m curious what shape you have in mind for the willingness-to-pay questions; this kind of broad survey seems a good place to ask that kind of thing. I’ve been dipping my toes into the publishing world a little lately, and there’s a lot of different ways to aim at different price points.
LW April Fools’ Day. . . idk, seemed funny to me when I was looking at Ben’s list, but it’s not a question I’m personally curious to know the answer to.
“Tax Opinion” and “Great Stagnation” are on their way out unless anyone shows up to defend them, possibly almost all of section 14: bonus politics questions should just be swapped out for politics questions people are currently interested in.
I think willingness-to-pay questions are in general not very reliable, because they are hypothetical. Moreover, they might give the survey a marketing flavor.