structural engineers on how likely it is that the buildings would collapse if hit by a plane full of fuel
“politics experts” (ideally historians and constitutional lawyers and experts at international relations and pundits with a good track record—i.e. people that are less likely to be tied to one party or government) about how likely it is that a government would run such a false flag operation
… and of course those surveys would need to be done in a way that avoids selection bias/self-selection, for example show up uninvited at a structural engineering conference and get everybody’s opinion or something.
Why should I trust my biased brain, especially when the debates surrounding this issue have clearly been very emotionally charged?
Does that mean you will change your mind in direction of “outside job” if many LessWrongers tend to answer “outside job”?
Btw, up to now 4% of LWers believe in the “inside job” hypothesis, so there are quite a few.
That could just mean that you answered “inside job”, and 24 people answered “outside job”.
A better survey would be something like:
structural engineers on how likely it is that the buildings would collapse if hit by a plane full of fuel
“politics experts” (ideally historians and constitutional lawyers and experts at international relations and pundits with a good track record—i.e. people that are less likely to be tied to one party or government) about how likely it is that a government would run such a false flag operation
… and of course those surveys would need to be done in a way that avoids selection bias/self-selection, for example show up uninvited at a structural engineering conference and get everybody’s opinion or something.
Does that mean you will change your mind in direction of “outside job” if many LessWrongers tend to answer “outside job”?
That could just mean that you answered “inside job”, and 24 people answered “outside job”.
I’m a bit surprised that enough people have bothered taking the survey for 4% to be a possible figure.