The results of the Sneervey are in!

Here are the full results, with some commentary below.

Demographic Info

This section is kinda boring, to be honest.

• Age is as expected. Most of us are twenty-something.

• Location is also as expected. Mostly North Americans, with Europeans in a solid second. The list of 'other' responses.

• Race is as expected. We're mostly white. The list of responses. Shout-out to the weirdo who thinks race isn't a thing in Europe. Who do you think invented it, silly?

• Gender is as expected. Mostly masc. The list of 'other' responses.

• Sexuality is also no surprise. The straights are a majority, with the bis coming in at second. The list of 'other' responses.

• Education also no surprise. The list of 'other' responses.

• Only 10.8% of y'all gave the correct answer for occuptation. The list of 'other' responses.

• I'm proud to say that sneerclub has a diversity of political views, ranging from the far left of communists to the far right of liberals. The list of 'other' responses.

• Religiously, we are very rational. The list of 'other' responses.

Sneerclub and you

• Our scientific and fair survey showed that people overwhelmingly have a positive view of sneerclub and think that we are not the baddies. Checkmate, anti-sneer sneerers. The list of 'other' responses. (Whoever said we are the baddies because you were unjustly banned by a mod lacking reading comprehension, get in touch with me for a chance at absolution.)

• Close to half of those sneerveyed learned of us through the rationalistsphere. In unrelated news, I will be banning just shy of half of commenters. The list of 'other' responses. I'd like to shout out Scott Aaronson whose "weird, self-pitying rant after stealing from a tip jar" sent some folk out way.

• About four fifths of you need to change your pronounciation of "sneerclubber". The list of 'other' responses. The person who answered with this youtube link deserves a mention.

• About a quarter of us are never-rats, while about half are dabblers who never got into it. Good numbers. The list of 'other' responses.

• For the mod popularity contest, one of the less active mods won, with poptart in second, and me in distant third. Fuck all of you.

• The full list of recommended subreddits. Abusing my power to signalboost some of these: r/ChapoTrapHouse, r/breadtube, r/iamveryculinary, r/enlightenedcentrism.

• The full list of recommended academic disciplines. Again signalboosting some: disability studies, history of science, mathematics, queer theory, smoke weed, and most importantly, burn academia to the ground.

• The full list of recommended media. Blah blah power abuse blah: anything by Ursula Le Guin, Dr. Strangelove, Harry Potter fanction, Sorry to Bother You, The Malazan Book of the Fallen. Also, passing along this important message: Check out Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky" if you get the chance. Sound of the summer.

• Please read the things our illustrious thoughtleader tells you to read. It's the only way we can enforce ideological uniformity. The list of 'other' responses. A selection: the fuck is a queerbee?; only because I don't have a list; please provide a list; what books are these?; I didn't know they were telling me to. [ed note: what say you, u/queerbees?]

• The full list of favorite sneers. Signalboost:

  • all the sneers that get around to metioning Alexander's two most awful posts: untitled and Trump is not a racist.
  • Any about why there aren't more women in their midst. They're oddly endearing.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/aaf7v9/nomination_for_the_most_yudkowskyian_sentence_it/
  • math pets
  • Posting Those who Walk Away from Omelas on /r/SSC and seeing how they reacted [ed note: someone please link this in the comments]
  • That time CI dunked on Yud personally in /r/badmath [ed note: thank you!]
  • the popularity of sneerclub seems to be attributable to rationalist seeking it out after scott aaronson complained about it

The rationalistsphere

• We're negative on LessWrong, neutral to negative on SlateStarCodex and rationalist tumblr, hate r/SSC and MIRI, and mixed on effective altruism.

• We found out about the rationalistsphere from a variety of places. The list of 'other' responses. Shout out to the person who found it via a google search for worst people ever, and my condolances to the person who learned of it through their philosophy class.

• Yudkowsky is our favorite rationalist, with Scott Alexander coming in second. I feel vindicated. The list of 'other' responses.

• Ron is the number one favorite HPMOR character, with Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and Hermione neck-to-neck for second. The list of 'other' responses. Some good choices I apologize for not including: edward cullen; hermione if she weren't so patronized by the narration; President Hillary Rodham Clinton; su3su2u1.

• The full list of rationalist community house names. My favs: BadDragon Army; Generate a GUID, call it that, and make people memorise it; House Harkonnen; The Healing Church of Yharnam; To be fair you have to have a very high IQ to get into this house.

• I am pleased at how close to a 50/50 split we got for the question about IQ.

Miscellanious fun

• The definitive sneerclub alignment is sneer-nerd-scifi-neutral-good-STEM.

• The list of 'other' responses for the basilisk question.

• The list of 'other' responses for the Scott question. A selection: Orson _____ Card, the most powerful god the rationalists worship; SCOTLAND WILL BE INDEPENDANT; They're different people?

Probability calibration

I did the very rigorous Bayesianism of mean(Filter(function(n) 0<=n && n<=1, sneervey[,colnum])) (the fake numbers were funny, but they wreck the averages, sorry not sorry), thereby arriving at the following correct numbers. Scientists and statisticians please take note.

• Pr(many-world interpretation of QM) = 0.3677

• Pr(aliens) = 0.7767

• Pr(AGI in our lifetime) = 0 [ed note: Yudkowsky please notice this, I have some great ideas on how to redirect MIRI's funding, get in touch]

• Pr(Linda is a bank teller) = 0.3022

• Pr(Linda is a bank teller and a feminist) = 0.2832 [ed note: congrats sneerclub for knowing that Pr(A and B) ≤ Pr(A)]

• Pr(your friends are still dating) = 0.6010

• Pr(you are still dating) = 0.5234

• Pr(you are still dating | you tell them your answers to the sneervey) = 0.5000

• Pr(your answer lower than the mean answer to this question) = 0.4568 [ed note: whoever answered 0.45, you came closest without going over and have a chance to win THIS BRAND NEW WASHING MACHINE! Shauna, please tell our guest about this fabulous appliance she has a chance to win.]

• Pr(Kolmogorov's 0–1 law) = 0.5584

Coda

• The list of how many questions were answered ironically.

• The list of final responses. Shoutout to the person who copypasted a John Galt monologue. Some other highlights:

  • /r/ssc isn't at all the same thing as /r/slatestarcoex. Seriously look it up. /r/ssc stands for something entirely different it's a college that just happens to share the same initials
  • All hail queerbees as top mod [ed note: please get in touch with me to plan the coup. This is not a trap.]
  • billionaires should all be hanged [ed note]
  • Discovering SneerClub was the worst decision I made in the last two years.
  • Half of this survey was basically masturbation, 8/10.
  • i deeply resent that you didn't let me answer the artificial intelligence question with the sex number
  • I hate you guys but there's nothing better around.
  • Is anyone else kinda lowkey terrified at AI risk, but not Basilisk stuff, just the government locking you up because face recognition algorithms said you would be a risk to society [ed note: yes]
  • this was a pretty good distraction while I waited for my lunch to refrigerate
  • This was too long [ed note: yes, this was made clear to me in the process of writing this up]
  • Yes, did you know that Go-Gurt is just yoghurt?

Thank you for participating in this sneervey. Your data has been forwarded to Jeff Bezos. Let's never do this again.