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The Rationalist Stereotype Survey

@speakertoyesterday

We can recruit the Berkeley physics and math grad students for a short survey to do this!

Yes, I’m kind of thinking that redoing this with a proper survey, built empirically from the LW diaspora dataset, with a proper control group, might shed some light on what the ultimate differentiating factors are.

(via speakertoyesterday)

1 month ago · tagged #yudbot and not ashamed of it · 181 notes · source: socialjusticemunchkin · .permalink

  1. satucran reblogged this from aellagirl and added:
    I…what?
  2. onecornerface reblogged this from injygo and added:
    3.958. If my math is right. (I’m not motivated to double-check.) I’m somewhere between standard cis and cis by default,...
  3. injygo reblogged this from dagny-hashtaggart and added:
    7.75, but probably closer to 7.0 if I’m honest with myself
  4. brin-bellway reblogged this from justice-turtle and added:
    Yeah, “kind of adjacent I guess” sounds more like you, since AFAIK you don’t follow anyone relevant other than me.“Not...
  5. rustingbridges reblogged this from shkreli-for-president and added:
    I failed to actually keep count but landed somewhere in the 4-6 zone, mostly for being a 20-something programmer who...
  6. javeytavelin reblogged this from voximperatoris and added:
    Age: 21-25, +1 Jewish: Nope, +0 Gender: Indifferent (magic button?), +0.5 Poly: Nope, +0 Sexuality A: I think...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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.
  10. hunterstheorem reblogged this from shkreli-for-president and added:
    and these people say we don’t have an entryist problem
  11. shkreli-for-president reblogged this from obiternihili and added:
    i hit all the ‘unusually smart bi ~poly ~programmer of the right age’ buttons and none of the other ones, my score is...
  12. wirehead-wannabe reblogged this from shacklesburst and added:
    7.833333, Typical rationalist.@funereal-disease @aprilwitching where are you guys on this?
  13. theinternetcrab reblogged this from shacklesburst and added:
    fuuuuuuuck I score over two points on thistime to… I don’t know what I can do to lower my score on here even lmaoI...
  14. shacklesburst reblogged this from hpgross and added:
    Actually agreeing with him is no necessary precondition for thinking he might be the rightful caliph.
  15. 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
  16. 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...
  17. lewtuff reblogged this from dagny-hashtaggart
  18. 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.
  19. voximperatoris reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    Age: 23 +1Jewishness: NoGender: Magic button +½Poly: NoSexuality, part A: Maybe somewhat “demisexual” but I think...
  20. dagny-hashtaggart reblogged this from plain-dealing-villain and added:
    Yeah, Judaism tends to be substantially overrepresented in academic and intellectual circles, and in the coastal...
  21. 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...
  22. 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...
  23. andrewhickeywriter reblogged this from freelancejake and added:
    See, and this is why I tend to follow several rationalist-adjacent Tumblrs even though I mostly mock the...
  24. atum-butterflies reblogged this from mugasofer
  25. arjan-de-lumens reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    I get 5.25 “Quite rationalist-adjacent” seems about right, I suppose.
  26. taygetea reblogged this from mugasofer and added:
    10. huh.
  27. oliwhail reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin