When trying to understand writing, don’t go for the strawman. Try to understand what could be meant.
I try to, but here I could be overcompensating from sometimes “going too deep” with questions like that. If the question was “Do you believe interpopulational genetic differences in mental abilities or character traits are large enough to be a factor in policy making”, I’d answer “No” and maybe even “Hell no, for a multinational population”. But that seems like a very different question.
I don’t think “ignoring the context” is well described as going deep. Part of critical reading is to think about why someone writes what they write instead just trying to focus on the literal meaning of words. It’s rather only engaging with the surface.
It’s ignoring the context that can be described as not going deep enough. My other usual algorithm “if the question seems easy, look for a deeper meaning” is not without its faults either. Btw, what the context of a single question that asks me to describe my opinion of something as I understand the term actually is?
Alright, I got it, I fail critical reading forever. Yet. Growth mindset. What was the real meaning?
People in our society differ in how they think about genetic differences. There are people who think that race matters a great deal and other you think it doesn’t matter. It’s useful to have a metric that distinguishes those people.
If you have that metric you can ask interesting questions such as whether people who are well calibrated are more likely to score high on that metric.
It’s interesting whether the metric changes from year to year.
That means the question tries to point at a property that people disagree about. In this case it’s whether genetic differences are important. The question doesn’t define “important” but there are various right wing people such as neoreocons and red-pill-folks who identify with the term “human biodiversity”. The question doesn’t try to ask for a specific well-defined belief but points to that cluster of beliefs. It’s the same way that the feminism question doesn’t point to a well-defined belief. You don’t need a well-defined belief to get valuable information from a poll.
The question made it into the the survey because I complained about the usage of tribal labels such as liberal/conversative where people have to pick one choice as a way to measure political beliefs. I argued that focusing on agreement on issues is more meaningful and provides better data.
There are people who think that race matters a great deal and other you think it doesn’t matter. It’s useful to have a metric that distinguishes those people.
What about people who think that neither of these positions is defensible? Well, I suppose you wouldn’t go wrong by calling them metacontrarians.
I try to, but here I could be overcompensating from sometimes “going too deep” with questions like that. If the question was “Do you believe interpopulational genetic differences in mental abilities or character traits are large enough to be a factor in policy making”, I’d answer “No” and maybe even “Hell no, for a multinational population”. But that seems like a very different question.
I don’t think “ignoring the context” is well described as going deep. Part of critical reading is to think about why someone writes what they write instead just trying to focus on the literal meaning of words. It’s rather only engaging with the surface.
It’s ignoring the context that can be described as not going deep enough. My other usual algorithm “if the question seems easy, look for a deeper meaning” is not without its faults either. Btw, what the context of a single question that asks me to describe my opinion of something as I understand the term actually is?
Alright, I got it, I fail critical reading forever. Yet. Growth mindset. What was the real meaning?
People in our society differ in how they think about genetic differences. There are people who think that race matters a great deal and other you think it doesn’t matter. It’s useful to have a metric that distinguishes those people.
If you have that metric you can ask interesting questions such as whether people who are well calibrated are more likely to score high on that metric. It’s interesting whether the metric changes from year to year.
That means the question tries to point at a property that people disagree about. In this case it’s whether genetic differences are important. The question doesn’t define “important” but there are various right wing people such as neoreocons and red-pill-folks who identify with the term “human biodiversity”. The question doesn’t try to ask for a specific well-defined belief but points to that cluster of beliefs. It’s the same way that the feminism question doesn’t point to a well-defined belief. You don’t need a well-defined belief to get valuable information from a poll.
The question made it into the the survey because I complained about the usage of tribal labels such as liberal/conversative where people have to pick one choice as a way to measure political beliefs. I argued that focusing on agreement on issues is more meaningful and provides better data.
What about people who think that neither of these positions is defensible? Well, I suppose you wouldn’t go wrong by calling them metacontrarians.
That why you don’t ask for a “yes”/”no” answer.
Thank you for the explaination.
Sorry, I’m still not getting it. Doesn’t matter.