Here’s my current proposed list of statements for people to (strongly) agree/disagree with—no neutrality allowed. The idea is to identify people on a farmer/forager axis, and then to cluster people according to similarity (subject to other constraints).
If there were cheap, tasteless, food pills that gave you all the sustenance you need, I would barely eat other food.
I believe it’s everyone’s duty to vote.
I regularly exercise when I should be working.
I think governmental oversight unnecessarily slows down the progress of science.
My clothes are definitely more about style than comfort.
Is the farmer/forager distinction very well supported? (And I don’t mean some random musings on Robin’s blog.) And have these statements been validated for the distinction?
AFAIK, no to the former, and definitely no to the latter: I just made them up. I was hoping that the statements would provide interesting discussion points in addition to personality discrimination. Big 5 tests seem like they might be a little bit less fun for guests to fill out. I acknowledge my lack of academic rigour here.
I was hoping that the statements would provide interesting discussion points in addition to personality discrimination.
Probably will the former, but I’d absolutely get rid of #2 and #4 - politics is the mindkiller, and it’s no accident that etiquette manuals proscribe politics during polite discussions.
thanks gwern. I have replaced #2 and #4 with
I would like more nuclear power in my country.
and
I keep the place where I live clean and orderly.
Thoughts? This probably needs to go live on the weekend.
Here’s my current proposed list of statements for people to (strongly) agree/disagree with—no neutrality allowed. The idea is to identify people on a farmer/forager axis, and then to cluster people according to similarity (subject to other constraints).
If there were cheap, tasteless, food pills that gave you all the sustenance you need, I would barely eat other food.
I believe it’s everyone’s duty to vote.
I regularly exercise when I should be working.
I think governmental oversight unnecessarily slows down the progress of science.
My clothes are definitely more about style than comfort.
I believe that travel is over-rated.
Is the farmer/forager distinction very well supported? (And I don’t mean some random musings on Robin’s blog.) And have these statements been validated for the distinction?
AFAIK, no to the former, and definitely no to the latter: I just made them up. I was hoping that the statements would provide interesting discussion points in addition to personality discrimination. Big 5 tests seem like they might be a little bit less fun for guests to fill out. I acknowledge my lack of academic rigour here.
Probably will the former, but I’d absolutely get rid of #2 and #4 - politics is the mindkiller, and it’s no accident that etiquette manuals proscribe politics during polite discussions.
thanks gwern. I have replaced #2 and #4 with I would like more nuclear power in my country. and I keep the place where I live clean and orderly. Thoughts? This probably needs to go live on the weekend.