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Dec 25, 2017
ssc
13 min 1,690 words 191 comments podcast
Scott Alexander preregisters hypotheses for the 2018 SSC Survey, planning to explore relationships between perception, cognition, personality, and demographics. Longer summary
Scott Alexander preregisters his hypotheses for the 2018 SSC Survey. He plans to investigate various relationships between perception, cognition, personality traits, and demographic factors. Key areas of focus include replicating previous findings on perception and cognition, exploring concepts like 'first sight and second thoughts' and 'ambiguity tolerance', investigating birth order effects, and examining correlations with autism, political views, and sexual harassment. He also plans to follow up on a previous AI risk persuasion experiment. Shorter summary
Oct 05, 2017
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6 min 741 words 165 comments podcast
Scott Alexander analyzes SSC survey results on trust, finding correlations with education, location, and political views, but not with gender, race, or religiosity. Longer summary
Scott Alexander analyzes the results of the SSC survey question on trust, exploring how different factors correlate with people's tendency to find others trustworthy. He finds that trust levels don't significantly differ by gender, race, religiosity, or intelligence, but there are differences based on education level, location, and political views. Urban and liberal areas tend to be more trusting, as do more educated individuals. Conservatives are generally less trusting than liberals. Effective altruists and polyamorous Less Wrong readers from California are found to be the most trusting groups. The post also notes correlations with mental health conditions and drug use, and observes that people who chose 'Other' in any category were consistently less trusting. Shorter summary
Mar 17, 2017
ssc
32 min 4,078 words 697 comments podcast
Scott Alexander presents and analyzes the results of the 2017 Slate Star Codex reader survey, revealing demographic and psychological insights about the blog's audience. Longer summary
Scott Alexander presents the results of the 2017 Slate Star Codex (SSC) reader survey, which gathered responses from 5,500 people. The post provides detailed breakdowns of demographics, opinions, and various psychological and behavioral traits of SSC readers. Scott also compares some of these results to a smaller sample of Mechanical Turk users. The data reveals interesting insights about the SSC readership, including their political leanings, educational background, and mental health statistics. Scott encourages readers to further analyze the publicly available dataset. Shorter summary