From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@MSX.UPMC.EDU)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 10:16:17 MDT
Hi everybody,
It occurred to me that it would be perhaps quite interesting to put a
questionnaire on the extropy institute web page where Extropians (and
others) answer questions about their views. The answers would be accompanied
by personal data (email address or anonymous handle), or they could be
totally anonymous, but always giving the answers from one person seperately
from others. Let's say, there would be questions about views on uploading,
nuclear power, PC in college, etc. etc. It would be intelectually
stimulating to try to come up with a set of issues that would define our
worldview (I say "our" although I am not a registered ExI member, but when I
went from hedweb.com to check out ExI last year, I found I was Extropian all
along, I just didn't know it). The questions would have to avoid shepherding
the answerer to obvious choices, like the Libertarian survey which finds
that almost everybody is libertarian, instead they could stimulate thinking.
And of course there should be the option of saying "This is a stupid
question", "I don't know", "I know but won't tell".
Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD
Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh
smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu
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