Comments on: Some results from my Political & Social survey

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:31:42 +0000

I have SW development training but no statistics training so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you elaborate?

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:31:03 +0000

In my case, I've become much more financially successful since adopting objectivism and anarcho-capitalism.

That doesn't tell me much other than what I already knew, that is, the the system itself naturally selects for personalities which are closer to the archetypical human expected in economic textbooks or the type of personality displayed by corporations.

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:26:54 +0000

RE: Correlation is not Causation

Oh I'm perfectly aware of this which is why I'm very careful to make very few deductions from the resuts and mostly postulate. I consider the survey quite weak anyway so I think it's only useful in pointing out some interesting trends to chew on. Hopefully v2 will be more useful although of course it's unlikely that it will point out causation. Nevertheless correlation is often quite useful in the "Hey! Hey! Look over there" way

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:22:16 +0000

I will probably take you up on that offer. Thanks

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:45:25 +0000

Please, most of the tools used in this tool are free software (ie web software and the php language) or built using public research funds (computers, internet) so your capitalism can suck it. Not that it matters anyway as even if those were the results of the system, it wouldn't make it hypocritical to criticize the flaws of the system anyway. It's like saying that people shouldn't criticize slavery when wearing clothes made from raw materials picked in slave plantations.

If you are in such favor as to have anarchy, perhaps you could move to Somalia or Zimabwabe, both are virtual anarchist havens

Shows what you don't know or understand.

By: les_gvt

les_gvt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:26:24 +0000

You seem to have serious mental issues. While in general I highly disregard therapy as a joke and scam, I would be willing to make an exception for you. You could make a therapst need a therapist. I also must laugh at the irony of your complaining about your free poll while denegrating capitalism and profits, because without either, you could not have conducted your little poll.

If you are in such favor as to have anarchy, perhaps you could move to Somalia or Zimabwabe, both are virtual anarchist havens

By: Yosef McGinnis

Yosef McGinnis — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:52:19 +0000

That was me!

By: Kyle Bennett

Kyle Bennett — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:18:42 +0000

You posed the question as “how people’s social status affects their political orientation.”, but all you’ve looked at is correlation, not causation. The complimentary question is “how does one’s political orientation affect his social status?”. And, of course, coincidence or a third factor that causes both social status and political orientation is possible. Either way, causation is much harder to get at than correlation, so I’m not faulting the survey, merely cautioning against drawing causitive inferences that don’t follow.

In my case, I’ve become much more financially successful since adopting objectivism and anarcho-capitalism. Could be cause and effect either way, or that age, experience, and a growing understanding of the world led to both, or just coincidence. It could even be that potential employers secretly see me as “one of them” when they hear what I say in job interviews.

By: @noor91

@noor91 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:29:36 +0000

Ah, I see. I'm 18, but my socio-political journey began with my jump into rigid anarcho-capitalism at 15.

By: Alderson Warm-Fork

Alderson Warm-Fork — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:23:03 +0000

I don't know if you have the software/stats training, but I find myself wondering which of these results are 5% statistically significant – mainly because it would help to filter out the huge number of slight effects and boil them down to a few definitely significant ones.