The Rationalist Stereotype Survey
Now with a scoring guide (choose one or none from each sub-category)
Age:
- 21-25 years +1
- 16-20 +½
- 26-30 years +½
Jewishness:
- Yes +1
- Kind of + ½
Gender:
- trans woman (regardless of hormone usage) +1
- any kind of amab using estrogen +1
- amab non-binary (no estrogen) +¾
- other non-cis or dubiously cis (afab trans, agender, magic button trans, etc.) +½
- cis by default (not magic button trans) +¼
Poly:
- Yes +1
- Kind of, or open to the idea +½
Sexuality, part A:
- gray-asexual or demisexual +1
- asexual +½
- asexual and kinky +1
- kinky +½
Sexuality, part B (replace “sexual” with “romantic” if doing so would give you a higher score):
- bisexual, pansexual, sapiosexual, any other kind of “gender isn’t really such a big deal"sexual +1
- any kind of “gender isn’t a massive deal but it’s somewhat of a deal"sexual +½
- gendersexual, but would take the bisexuality pill +½
Gifted child:
- very +½ (eg. peerless in one’s childhood environment, or not peerless, but with a highly unusual peer group)
- quite +¼ (eg. one of the highest-achieving in one’s slightly less highly unusual peer group)
Badbrains:
- at least 2 of: ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression at least to a sub-clinical but noticeable degree +½
- one of them +¼
Field:
- CS student, or working in programming, AI, CS, etc. +1
- self-learning any of the above +½
- student or working in mathematics +½
Politics, part 1:
- supports open borders, or at least massively increased immigration +½
- supports significantly increased immigration +¼
Politics, part 2:
- supports basic income by whatever name one wishes to use +½
- supports some other kind of less bureaucratic, more market-based approach to welfare +¼
Politics, extra questions (can’t increase the total politics score over 1):
- refuses to identify with ideological labels +½
- identifies with a weird made-up “non-“ideological label +½ ("futarchy”, “meta-level politics”, etc.)
Geeking out:
- transhumanist nerd stuff +1
- any other uncommon and specific nerd stuff +1
- less unusual SF/F or STEM nerd stuff +½
HPMoR, 3 Worlds Collide, Dragon-Tyrant (add scores from each):
- has read all of it, or most and intends to finish +1/3
- has read a lot but doesn’t intend to finish, or is starting +1/6
SSC:
- regularly +1
- sometimes +½
- rarely +¼
I tried to not break legacy results compatibility so most people’s scores should be the same and this would just clarify the questionnaire; if people’s results change, it’s because I’ve changed some things to better reflect the original intent based on data acquired so far (looking especially at you, @sigmaleph, because that “politics” answer was the most stereotypical rationalist thing ever and I’m embarrassed to have overlooked that possibility)
Since everyone is doing it: .5 for age, depending on how you count Jewishness either .5 or 1, not cis-by-default woman, 1 point for poly, 1 point for gray-ace, sexuality is confusing but I’m going with 1 point here, I don’t think I am/was "unusually gifted” but people have told me otherwise so either .25 or .5, depending on how you count my (definitely subclinical) anxiety either .25 or .5 for badbrains, not a computer or math person, .25 for immigration (not a very carefully thought through stance, could go either way) and .5 for UBI, I’m not sure if my nerd stuff is particularly uncommon but let’s go with 1, .66 for HPMoR and the Dragon-Tyrant, 1 point for SSC.
Counting lowest scores 7 11/12, highest scores 8 11/12, I’m going to average that to 8.
According to @socialjusticemunchkin that makes me a Typical Rationalist. Which, uh, no. I’m a 16-year-old girl who’s not particularly STEM and hangs around here because the people are interesting, I’m basically the opposite of what I’d think if I was trying to imagine A Rationalist.
(As a side note: using @invertedporcupine’s measures of "agrees with EY”, I get either 2/4 or ½, depending on how you count. Many Worlds sounds superficially plausible and FOOM implausible, but I lack the background to understand either on any deep enough level to have a strong opinion. (Apparently we get meta-rationality points for admitting we don’t know enough? I’m claiming those, then.) I think dust specks are better than torture and cryonics sounds like shot on the dark, but one that might be worth it.)
On the other hand, to me "a gifted Jewishness-scoring badbrains unusualsexual teenager with correct-contrarian-leaning political opinions (as far as positive questions are concerned, basic income is one of those ideas that I consider pretty extremely likely to result from a relatively wide variety of normative views fully thought out), who reads the media and finds the people interesting” sounds very much like A Possible Rationalist.
As far as my amateur stetson-harrison psychometry suggests the STEM thing is slightly misleading; what makes A Rationalist is partially the things that make them different from the typical STEM person, and if I was forced to guess without proper data, I’d suggest it’s a certain badbrainsness and a more introspective and philosophical approach in some ways.
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injygo reblogged this from dagny-hashtaggart and added:7.75, but probably closer to 7.0 if I’m honest with myself
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justice-turtle reblogged this from brin-bellway and added:6.5 typical rationalist, unless I subtract the scores for every “I have no idea what this is” answer, which puts me at a...
zwitterionics reblogged this from sdhs-rationalist and added:7.83. I am on the high end of typical. Being typical would not make me happy in many circumstances, but this is...
sdhs-rationalist reblogged this from mhd-hbd and added:½+1+¾+¾(averaging out two possibilities since I’m not sure which is more accurate)+3/2+1+½+½+1+2+1+1=11.5. Reasonable.
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and these people say we don’t have an entryist problem
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7.833333, Typical rationalist.@funereal-disease @aprilwitching where are you guys on this?
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shacklesburst reblogged this from hpgross and added:Actually agreeing with him is no necessary precondition for thinking he might be the rightful caliph.
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obiternihili reblogged this from hpgross and added:Did it twice and I’m kinda adjacent apparently I figured myself more middle of the road, but apparently not
hpgross reblogged this from shacklesburst and added:Since I did this quickly I ended up as “Typical Rationalist”, but I’m also 0/4 on agreeing with Big Yud. Maybe I...
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thepokeduck reblogged this from dancercoder and added:8.5, and also, boo to the person who wanted to do it as 1, ½/ ¼ instead of 4, 2, and 1 points. Ugh.
voximperatoris reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:Age: 23 +1Jewishness: NoGender: Magic button +½Poly: NoSexuality, part A: Maybe somewhat “demisexual” but I think...
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socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from plain-dealing-villain and added:My spreadsheets are showing that clusters 1 and 3 are 50% more likely to be “religion: jewish” than and 6, while cluster...
plain-dealing-villain reblogged this from the-grey-tribe and added:It doesn’t seem to be much more concentrated than in an arbitrary group of geeky college kids. We’re drawing from the...
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See, and this is why I tend to follow several rationalist-adjacent Tumblrs even though I mostly mock the...
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arjan-de-lumens reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:I get 5.25 “Quite rationalist-adjacent” seems about right, I suppose.
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