X-Message-Number: 27825 From: Subject: Squeezing even more information from my surveys Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:58:12 US/Eastern I earlier described my creation of a meta-survey that can be used to study the results of my survey of 100 cryonicists: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=27804 Now I have created a meta-survey of my earlier "beta test" life extension survey of 113 cryonicists: http://www.benbest.com/sandbox/Choose_Questions_7.php The instructions for using this meta-survey are the same as for the cryonicist survey meta-survey: By selecting specific questions on this form you can see the entire profile of the respondents who answered those questions in the way you specify. To see the response profile of a subset of respondents, do the following: (1) Choose a subset of questions to profile, then click 'Obtain SubSurvey for Profiling' (2) Choose the response to your chosen questions that you want to profile, then click 'Display Profile' (3) View the SubSurvey and compare the SubSurvey results to the results in the general survey of 113 cryonicists: http://www.benbest.com/sandbox/Display_Survey_7.php As an example of information that can be extracted using the meta-survey, I provide the following observations: Ten of the 12 female respondents are signed-up cryonicists: 7 with Alcor and 3 with CI. By contrast, 59 of the 101 male respondents are signed-up cryonicists: 24 with Alcor and 35 with CI. None of the 113 respondents are signed-up with either ACS or Trans Time. About 60% of the respondents lived in the United States and these accounted for 9 of the 10 Christian respondents (6 of the 7 who definitely believe in God). 72% of those living in the United States have made arrangements with Alcor or CI as opposed to 44% of those not living in the United States. There were 29 agnostics and 60 atheists, nearly 79% of the respondents. Although about as many females as males were atheist or agnostic the females were more evenly split between atheist or agnostic (one more agnostic than atheist) whereas the male atheists outnumbered male agnostics by more than 2 to 1. Nearly half of the atheists thought science would allow people to live 200 years in good health in less than 40 years, whereas less than a quarter of the agnostics had this opinion. (Are agnostics greater skeptics than atheists?) About a third of the agnostics gave cryonics a 10% or less chance of working and about a tenth gave cryonics a 90% or greater chance of working. By contrast, about a sixth of the atheists gave cryonics a 10% or less chance of working and about a third gave cryonics a 90% or greater chance of working. Proportionately as many atheists as agnostics are signed up with Alcor or CI, and both are evenly split between the two organizations among respondents. There is more information that can be "mined" from my surveys, I am sure, and I would be interested to hear any observations that others discover by using my meta-surveys. (As yet I have heard nothing.) -- Ben Best Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27825