A new (and for the most part, fun) questionnaire
Hi all! Long experience has taught me that:
People enjoy answering questionnaires.
People love looking at patterns in data and learning about them.
I enjoy finding patterns in data and writing about them.
One of the easiest ways to interpret patterns in data is by having two questions with two responses and presenting the data in a 2x2 table.
Thus I’ve created this 75-question survey with only two responses for each question. With your help, we can answer some of the strange questions and maybe help the bear community come up with a theory of everything re: humans:
https://forms.gle/CTjSnWnKQkzxLSzw6
Feel free to suggest additional questions. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANY OF THE QUESTIONS DON’T MAKE SENSE.
Additionally, I would be thrilled, stoked, and possibly even chuffed if you’d share this survey around.
Where is the results?
> Have you ever dreamed of dying a heroic death?
Unclear whether this is referring to a daydream or a literal dream. I answered as though it's the former.
> Would you like to be famous?
Unclear whether this refers to personal enjoyment vs. what choice I'd make. I answered according to the latter. (I wouldn't intrinsically enjoy being famous, but it would give me more influence to make the world a better place, so I'd become so if I could.)
> Are you concerned about losing your job, or having trouble getting a job, as a result of AI?
Unclear whether "being dead" counts as "not having a job". I assumed it does.
> Do you know who Sufjan Stevens is?
The likely intention of this question conflicts with the overall instruction that I'm free to look things up. Probably should ask whether I knew who it was before reading the question. (That's how I answered.) Same for all the later "do you know" questions.
> Are you left handed or ambidextrous?
Unclear how to answer if I'm genetically right-handed but trained myself to be ambidextrous because bodily asymmetry bothers me. (I acknowledge I'm an outlier here. I left it blank.)