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belief poll #2
This time I made sure that the lower end of the range is 0 rather than 1, to make it symmetric with the 10. I don't know why lj defaults to 1-10... I was lazy last time and just left it how they set it up.
I know different people mean different things by choosing different numbers, so to standardize try and do it this way: pick 10 if you are 95%-100% confident that the statement is true. Pick 0 if you are 0-5% confident (in other words, 95%-100% confident it's false). Pick 9 if you are 85%-95% confident it's true. Pick 5 if you are 45-55% confident it's true (in other words, you don't know). I'm going to take![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
browascension's suggestion this time and say that if you're unfamiliar with the topic, just skip it rather than picking 5.
I tried to pick questions that I was a little more agnostic on this time... last time I had too many extreme responses, both from myself and from everyone, so hopefully this one will be more mixed.
[Poll #1438874]
I know different people mean different things by choosing different numbers, so to standardize try and do it this way: pick 10 if you are 95%-100% confident that the statement is true. Pick 0 if you are 0-5% confident (in other words, 95%-100% confident it's false). Pick 9 if you are 85%-95% confident it's true. Pick 5 if you are 45-55% confident it's true (in other words, you don't know). I'm going to take
browascension's suggestion this time and say that if you're unfamiliar with the topic, just skip it rather than picking 5.I tried to pick questions that I was a little more agnostic on this time... last time I had too many extreme responses, both from myself and from everyone, so hopefully this one will be more mixed.
[Poll #1438874]
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I need to know what the asker means by "conscious" here; it's a very slippery term and I don't feel comfortable assuming I know how to read it.
Personally, I think there are so many different meanings and interpretations for the word consciousness that we will never be able to settle on one precise meaning for it. So what the question is really asking is just if you're comfortable applying that term to chimpanzees... so part of what it's asking is what your definition of consciousness is.