Some of the response posts talk about “attractiveness scores”, but I didn’t find those in the data summaries. Did those ever happen? I think it’d be more interesting if people wrote their genuinely best arguments for each side, and we measured how much the reader is persuaded, instead of many participants (as far as I can tell) trying to pretend that they’re average and are persuaded by average arguments.
Of course, it’s already pretty interesting as-is, and it’s nice that somone actually tried out the excercise!
ETA: the other thing is that I suspect the participants in your blog are wildly unrepresentative (except perhaps of participants in your blog). It might be interesting to have some people who can’t argue both sides that well both to provide more diversity for the reader/scorer and provide some representation of other communities (for example, I’m not optimistic about my ability to effectively pass off as a Christian, since I can’t think of any moment in my life when I actually believed or paid much attention to church teachings).
Some of the response posts talk about “attractiveness scores”, but I didn’t find those in the data summaries. Did those ever happen? I think it’d be more interesting if people wrote their genuinely best arguments for each side, and we measured how much the reader is persuaded, instead of many participants (as far as I can tell) trying to pretend that they’re average and are persuaded by average arguments.
Of course, it’s already pretty interesting as-is, and it’s nice that somone actually tried out the excercise!
ETA: the other thing is that I suspect the participants in your blog are wildly unrepresentative (except perhaps of participants in your blog). It might be interesting to have some people who can’t argue both sides that well both to provide more diversity for the reader/scorer and provide some representation of other communities (for example, I’m not optimistic about my ability to effectively pass off as a Christian, since I can’t think of any moment in my life when I actually believed or paid much attention to church teachings).