Comments on: Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 By: *Slate Star Codex* | Nation of Beancounters http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-118937 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:45:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-118937 […] 19. Why polls fail, or noisy poll results and reptilian Muslim climatologists from Mars. […]

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]]> By: Jesse http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-49970 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:03:06 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-49970 Global warming denialists are not skeptics. They’re the opposite of skeptics.

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]]> By: Douglas Knight http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-26338 Thu, 26 Dec 2013 22:46:21 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-26338 Al Gore made the bulk of his money off of (a) Current TV (2004-) and (b) Apple (2003-). These came after he left the White House, but before his movie. They monetize his connections and might be post hoc bribes, but appear to me to have nothing to do with his celebrity. Maybe Jobs chose him because of his pre-celebrity environmental activism, but I think that’s a minor part.

How much money did he make as an speaker before 2004?

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]]> By: Pat K http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-26331 Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:39:47 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-26331 ” Gore was rich before this”

Gore estimated net worth when he left the White House was 1.9 million dollars. His current value is estimated at from $270 Million to $300 million plus.

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]]> By: The Great Psychological Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy | Geoffchambers's Blog http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-20156 Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:13:52 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-20156 […] http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mar… […]

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]]> By: Roxolan http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-17531 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:29:07 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-17531 I’m more than 50% confident that, if you’d been asked “do you prefer the word ‘apple’ or ‘carrot’?” before reading this post, you would have found an answer.

But okay, some people, possibly including you, may be incapable of expressing arbitrary preferences for words. They aren’t doing anything wrong by answering truthfully. But we know that most people in one survey answered dishonestly, because the polls got similar numbers of respondents.

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]]> By: Nancy Lebovitz http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-12449 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:05:43 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-12449 What are the odds of getting people who are conscientious enough to answer a questionnaire meticulously, but not conscientious enough to care if a question seems ambiguous or their preferred answer isn’t on the list?

That being said, thanks for the post– the amount of random weirdness is a good reason for being cautious about taking survey results seriously.

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]]> By: Nancy Lebovitz http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-12441 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:42:22 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-12441 But I don’t have a preference between ‘apple’ and ‘carrot’. I can’t see that I’m trying to make your life worse or showing some character defect when I don’t want to give an answer that doesn’t make sense.

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]]> By: Do 29 percent of Americans really think an armed revolution might be necessary in the next few years? http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-11144 Fri, 10 May 2013 23:35:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-11144 […] Related: Scott Alexander on Noisy Poll Results And Reptilian Climatologists From Mars […]

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]]> By: Fred Davis http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/#comment-10061 Thu, 02 May 2013 12:21:11 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=404#comment-10061 To be fair, You had adequately explained the correlation between Climate Change Denialisms and herpetohominidological beliefs by pointing out the low sample size of the clime change denialists in the poll.

So, with Occam’s Razor neatly satified, the sudden jump to “…therefore I know a cabal of climate change blog commenters were deliberately giving misleading answers to the poll because of the pixels and from seeing a few questionnaires in my time” is fairly risible and ironic.

If it is fair to say that climate change denialists were reluctant to give their readers the poll, then our disbelief is not stretched incredibly so to then go on to assert that the climate change denialist who were least reluctant to give their readers the poll were the more whackaloon ones who don’t understand how crazy they sound while the more grounded set of absurd conspiracy theorists who merely deny anthropogenic climate change were the ones more likely to not engage with the poll at all because they viewed it as part of a conspiracy to make them seem crazy, and thus the results are explained by the anthropogenic climate change denier’s innate tendency to favor actions that, in the long run, are ultimately self harming as part of a vain attempt to spite the stereotypical environmentalists that exist only in their heads, Q.E.D.

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