There are some things that make useful responses to common criticisms of the community. “You think you’re so smart, but you really aren’t!” (People reporting “proper” IQ scores and SAT results here consistently come out a couple of standard deviations above average.) “LW is a hive of racist sexist neoreactionary scum and villainy!” (LW consistently comes out more liberal and more feminist than the population as a whole. It has a lot of gay people and a lot of trans people. On the other hand, it doesn’t have a lot of women or black people and some specific ideas neoreactionaries like are more popular here than in the world at large.) “You’re a bunch of borderline autistics!” (Er, um, yeah, that one seems not to be too far from the truth.)
I think it’s mostly just curiosity.
There are some things that make useful responses to common criticisms of the community. “You think you’re so smart, but you really aren’t!” (People reporting “proper” IQ scores and SAT results here consistently come out a couple of standard deviations above average.) “LW is a hive of racist sexist neoreactionary scum and villainy!” (LW consistently comes out more liberal and more feminist than the population as a whole. It has a lot of gay people and a lot of trans people. On the other hand, it doesn’t have a lot of women or black people and some specific ideas neoreactionaries like are more popular here than in the world at large.) “You’re a bunch of borderline autistics!” (Er, um, yeah, that one seems not to be too far from the truth.)