| Survey Name
| Principal(s)
| Survey Intent
| Analysis Writeup?
| Sample Size
| Public Data?
| Contact Information
|
|---|
| SlateStarCodex Survey (2020)
| Scott Alexander
| "The survey helps me learn more about SSC readers and plan community events. But it also provides me with useful informal research data for questions I’m interested it, which I then turn into interesting posts. My favorite was 2018’s Fight Me, Psychologists: Birth Order Effects Exist And Are Very Strong, which I think made a real contribution to individual differences psychology and which could not have happened without your cooperation. But last year I also got to debunk a myth about how mathematicians eat corn, fail to replicate supposed dangers of beef jerky, and test a theory of how fetishes form. I expect this year’s research to be even more interesting."
| No but general results available
| 8043
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| SlateStarCodex Survey (2019)
| Scott Alexander
| "The survey helps me learn more about SSC readers and plan community events. But it also provides me with useful informal research data for questions I’m interested it, which I then turn into interesting posts. My favorite from last year was Fight Me, Psychologists: Birth Order Effects Exist And Are Very Strong, which I think made a real contribution to individual differences psychology and which could not have happened without your cooperation."
| No but general results available
| 8171
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| SlateStarCodex Survey (2018)
| Scott Alexander
| "If you’re reading this and have previously read at least one Slate Star Codex post, please take the 2018 SSC Survey."
| No but general results available
| 8077
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| SlateStarCodex Nootropics Survey (2016)
| Scott Alexander
| "There are some online communities like r/nootropics where people get together, discuss them, and compare results. I’ve hung out there for a while, and two years ago, in order to satisfy my own curiosity about which of these were most worth looking into, I got 150 people to answer a short questionnaire about their experiences with different drugs."
| Yes
| 150
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| SlateStarCodex Survey (2014)
| Scott Alexander
|
| Yes
| 649
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| SlateStarCodex Nootropics Survey (2014)
| Scott Alexander
| "I asked people in the two largest online nootropics communities (that I know of), Reddit’s r/nootropics and Longecity’s Brain Health forum, to take a survey describing their use of 31 different substances."
| Yes
| 162
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
| Effective Altruism Survey (2019)
|
- Rethink Charity
- Rethink Priorities
|
| Yes
| 2513
| No
|
|
| Technical Background Survey (2019)
| johnswentworth
| "When writing posts, it would be useful to know how much background technical knowledge LW readers have in various areas. To that end, I set up a short six-question survey. Please take it, so I (and others) can write posts better fit to your level of technical background. If your answer to all of the questions is “zero-ish technical knowledge”, please take it, so you’re not inundated with mathy posts. If your answer to all of the questions is “I am secretly John Von Neumann”, please take the survey, so the rest of us know there’s someone like that around. If you are somewhere in the middle, please take the survey. It’ll take, like, maybe sixty seconds."
| Yes
| 246
| Google Forms Charts
|
|
| LessWrong Diaspora Jargon Survey (2017)
| namespace
| "In this survey I propose to take 12 terms (listed below) and ask at least 50 respondents if they originate from the LessWrong Diaspora, Academia, or neither. The terms are chosen to sound 'non-obvious' to respondents as to their origin, i.e they were deliberately selected for ambiguity. At least one term was chosen to sound especially academic and one term chosen to sound especially LessWrong Diaspora to provide a baseline ... All terms or phrases were taken from the Jargon Dictionary hosted by namespace (myself)."
| Yes
| 53
| Tabular data hosted on this wiki
|
- admin [snail] extropian [period] net
|
| LessWrong Diaspora Survey (2016)
| namespace
| Get a broad sample of the LessWrong Diaspora as part of evaluating current state of the community and figuring out direction of LessWrong 2.0.
| Yes
| 3083
|
|
- admin [snail] extropian [period] net
|
| LessWrong Survey (2014)
| Scott Alexander
| "If you are reading this post and self-identify as a LWer, then you are the target population for the Less Wrong Census/Survey. Please take it. Doesn’t matter if you don’t post much. Doesn’t matter if you’re a lurker. Take the survey."
| Yes
| 1503
|
| scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com
|
