~~The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially here! You can take it at~~ ~~this link.~~

(Update, the census has closed! Thank you for taking it. An analysis is planned to be out in late January.)

The kinda-sorta-annual-if-you-really-squint tradition of the Less Wrong Census is once more upon us!

I want to pitch you on taking the survey. First, the demographics data is our best view into who's using the site and who is in the community. I use it when trying to figure out how to help meetups, I add a bunch of questions the LessWrong team asks which I assume they use to improve the site. Second, because I am madly, ravenously curious what works and what doesn't for raising the sanity waterline and making people more rational. I'm even curious what folks think that would mean! Third, if you're reading this and you're thinking "eh, I'm not really a rationalist, more just rationalist adjacent" then you are also of interest; I include questions from several adjacent communities as well. Also, you make a fantastic active control group.

If you want to just spend five minutes answering the basic demographics questions before leaving the rest blank and hitting submit, that's totally appreciated. The survey is structured so the fastest and most generally applicable questions are generally speaking towards the start. (I did add some intermissions that mix this up. If you're impatient, feel free to skip any or all intermissions.) At any point you can scroll to the bottom and hit Submit, though you won't be able to add more answers once you do.

The survey shall remain open from now until at least January 7th, 2026. I plan to close it sometime on Jan 8th.

I don't work for LessWrong, but I do work on improving rationalist meetups around the world. Once the survey is closed, I plan to play around with the data and write up an analysis post like this one sometime in late January.

~~Please take the survey at~~ ~~this link~~.

(Update, the census has closed! Thank you for taking it. An analysis is planned to be out in late January.)

Ancient tradition is that if you take the survey you can comment here saying you took the survey, and people upvote you for karma.

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