Sometimes I get excited about running surveys. Here is a Positly one from November 2020 in which I asked the following questions, to participants from India:
What are you looking forward to this week?
What do you think of as the most important thing going on in the world right now?
If you had a spare half hour right now, what would you do with it?
What is something you changed your mind about recently?
What in life is more important than other people realize?
If someone gave you $5 right now, what would you do with it?
Who is someone you think of as a hero?
Are you paying attention to the US election?
What was the biggest news story this year?
I don’t recall any notable constraints other than the India location requirement, but I barely remember doing this.
It’s kind of wild to me how many people outside the United States consider “America election” the most important thing going on in the world right now.
Those are some extreme outliers for age. Was that self-reported, or some kind of automated information gathering related to their Positly profiles?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to ask Indians what they would do with a similar amount of money to $5 in rupees or crores?
They don’t use dollars in India, except perhaps internationally or for rich tourists.
First person (row 2) partially sounds a lot like GPT3. Particularly their answers “But in the scheme of things, changing your mind says more good things about your personality than it does bad. It shows you have a sense of awareness and curiosity, and that you can admit and reflect when decisions have been flawed or mistakes have been made.” and “A hero is defined by his or her choices and actions, not by chance or circumstances that arise. A hero can be brave and willing to sacrifice his or her life, but I think we all have a hero in us — someone who is unselfish and without want of reward, who is determined to help others”. Then however there’s “SAVE THE AMOUNT” and “CORONA COVID-19″. This person is confusing.
I’m reminded of Sarah Constantin’s Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences. A quote that resonates with my own experience: