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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
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
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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]
no subject
"CLEARLY"?!
I'm unaware of any standardized-ish MATH tests that don't cut off (fail to meaningfully test) the left X% of population...where X is larger than we like to believe. Every math test has signif selection effects.
But that doesn't even matter. Because what's INTERESTING re: math and verbal and musical and cooking and military intelligence w/r/t natural-born gender...isn't whether the MEANs or MEDIANs or MODEs differ by a couple points between the hormonal sexes. So what I take you to be REALLY polling about is the fact that men dominate near the visible top of essentially ALL fields (and, the more g-loaded or obsessive, the more dominant). (Nobody cares to compare the biggest losers at the bottom -- who are mostly men -- and mostly homeless, imprisoned or dead.) This interesting hegemony is explained ~entirely by the sexes' different standard deviations and skews in intelligences + the big personality dimensions. Which, in turn, is "CLEARLY" ;) nature playing at XY/XX asymmetric reproductive game theory...which you can practically prove from your armchair and then can confirm via various observations!