Kathryn Aegis writes:
> I find this thread fun, but it seems to me that sweeping conclusions are
> being made on very little data. I seriously doubt that most extropians
> are first-born, nor that any one particular Kiersey temperament sort is
Afair, the first-born (single child?) membership was not tested in the recent informal poll.
> drawn to transhumanist memes. If anything, I expected to find the more
> adventurous minds drawn to it, rather than the more rational. The
> sample size is dreadfully small considering the full data set, not to
Oh, I guess we've sampled 2 or 3 %.
> mention the new groups of people that will be attracted to this in the
> next few years. I also see a slant due to the fact that you are
> conducting the research on an internet list that has gone through
> several membership fluctuations and that probably does not fully
> represent the membership of ExI at this time.
Should be easy to check, but who says that ExI membership is not a yet another bias? (How many ExI members don't have web acess?)
ciao,
'gene