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survey about biases in the investment context 2017-03-25T14:24:12.053Z

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Comment by -necate- on survey about biases in the investment context · 2017-03-26T08:35:07.143Z · LW · GW

Of course I can no longer change the framing while the survey is running, but for future surveys how would you frame it? Do you think it is worth specifying time-frame, other wealth an so on? I am not sure if most participants of an online survey would carefully read the instructions and actually try to visualise the specified situation.

What I have seen often is the framing "on top of what you already own you have been given..." which implies that you should make your decision based on your current situation. Do you think this would be superior?

Comment by -necate- on survey about biases in the investment context · 2017-03-26T08:30:06.210Z · LW · GW

Unfortunately I cannot fix the UI problems, because I lack the programming skills and asked a fried to set up the survey for me. He is pretty busy now and I don't want to bother him again, since I already requested many changes before the survey went live. The winner will gain the amount he ended up with not only the gains.

Comment by -necate- on survey about biases in the investment context · 2017-03-26T08:25:59.466Z · LW · GW

I use a captcha, so if you block scripts this happens.

Comment by -necate- on survey about biases in the investment context · 2017-03-25T14:54:21.342Z · LW · GW

Thank you for participating. You can also skip questions if they make no sense for you. I should have advised people to do that if they do not drive.

Comment by -necate- on Open thread, Mar. 20 - Mar. 26, 2017 · 2017-03-25T08:53:39.433Z · LW · GW

Hello guys, I am currently writing my master's thesis on biases in the investment context. One sub-sample that I am studying is people who are educated about biases in a general context, but not in the investment context. I guess LW is the right place to find some of those so I would be very happy if some of you would participate since people who are aware about biases are hard to come by elsewhere. Also I explicitly ask for activity in the LW community in the survey, so if enough of LWers participate I could analyse them as an individual subsample. Would be interesting to know how LWers perform compared to psychology students for example. Also I think this is related enough to LW that I could post a link to the survey in discussion, right? If so I would be happy about some karma, because I just registered and cant post yet. The link to the survey is: https://survey.deadcrab.de/