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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.
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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.
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I am amused that I answered an absolute extreme at every question I chose to answer this round! I was much more legitimately uncertain about the last batch (alien life out there in the stars, and all that). This round...the questions are either moral ones (depending a TON on what exactly you mean by the moral language)...or basically settled fact IMO. Sometimes I personally don't yet KNOW the settled fact (how weak EMH has to get to apply to various stock markets, e.g.; just not my field), but often I do and am amazed that my understanding (no, I won't say 'view' or such to feign humility) is not more widespread. I blame religion. Not literally religion in the narrow sense...but basically yeah.
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(hi, pazi, I have no idea who you are & had meant to reply to the main post. Mea culpa!)