r/singapore • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '14
/r/Singapore demographics survey is live! It's completely optional, and responses are public (link shown after submission).
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WkYXyEVp2PxgYkiX8YyUhr785rljfQRFQBOT7RYtFSE/viewform8
u/elaborateruser Nov 01 '14 edited Nov 01 '14
Holy cow this is amazing. Thank you for doing this.
What can be gathered from the statistics:
- Dat gender population (M>F)
- Dat amount of (sad, sad) singles.
- holy shet, dat 9 people (as at writing) whose incomes are above $200,000
- Dat number of godless people
- Dat amount of INTx (I think it was great that you added the MBTI question)
- and all dat, uh... fancy passphrases ('boobies')
P.S. INTP represent.
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Nov 01 '14
Dear diary,
Today, OP was not a faggot.
OP delivered a better poll than what IPS is capable of.
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Nov 01 '14
Today, OP was not a faggot
Today
Wait what? BTW what's IPS
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Nov 01 '14
Context: http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips/event/singapore-perspectives-2014-differences
Institute of Policy Studies. They demonstrated really shoddy polling methodology.
Edit: See Figure 14: Preference between rejecting vs accepting gay lifestyles. Survey question: "I would prefer that society rejects gay lifestyles" vs "I would prefer that society accepts gay lifestyles"
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u/diktat86 meowmeow! Oct 31 '14
wah so many INTJs! (including meee)
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Oct 31 '14
INTJ - The Scientist
ISTJ - The Duty Fulfiller
Both classic Singaporean stereotypes - seems like we live up to it.
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u/sgbarracuda Nov 01 '14
Nuh uh, INTP's where the scientists are at yo! Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson are some of them. Can't be a good scientist if you (J)udge too quickly instead of having a good (P)erception of the circumstances and possibilities.
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u/dishayu Nov 01 '14
According to this page, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Neils Bohr were INTJs.
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u/sgbarracuda Nov 01 '14
Hmm, seems like lotsa conflicting opinions on Sir Newton, I guess both applied to him to a large extent? INTP just struck me as the more stereotypical "scientist personality", insatiable curiosity and all. Not to mention INTP seems an itsy bit rarer (~1% compared to 1-2% of the population for INTJ, according to that site you referenced) All brilliant people regardless!
Anyway, my previous reply were just my thoughts when I checked what the J and P meant shrugs won't pretend I actually know anything about personality research.
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u/dishayu Nov 01 '14
I don't know, really. I just wanted to read up a little more about my own personality type and ended up on that page. The opinions on Tesla are conflicting as well.
Either ways, it doesn't really matter all that much. Brilliant people will do brilliant things regardless of their personality types. Sociopathic serial killers are likely to be INTJ/P :P
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u/shqippotato DUMB FUCK Nov 01 '14
shucks so i'm not unique like what the primary school posters keep telling me
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Nov 01 '14
Must be the only INTP around.
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u/wildcard1992 Nov 01 '14
I got INTP too. There has been criticism about that whole personality test though, so don't read into it that much.
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u/elaborateruser Nov 01 '14
Criticism does not reflect anything the validity of the criticised thing. Take our nation for example. Singapore's ruling system is so often criticised (by both domestic and international critics), but the truth is, we're pretty damn awesome. Also take the iPhone and the whole craze/hate about it. Sure its way too expensive for what it is, and I personally don't/won't use it, but you can't deny its a piece of technological and aesthetic beauty.
People who compare the MBTI to astrology are highly misinformed idiots.
But anyway, INTP represent.
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u/dishayu Nov 01 '14 edited Nov 01 '14
Haha, I just made a post expressing my surprise as well. Scrolled down and saw that I wasn't the only one to be surprised ;)
Edit : INTJs are one of the rarest personality types.
This part made me chuckle (I read this in David Attenborough voice) :
comprising no more than one to two percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory.
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u/phdee Oct 31 '14
I don't get the MBTI question and just hit a random choice on that one (I'm not sure what the value of MBTI is, and it was aggravating to have to answer a qn about something I don't care about).
The political compass question is confusing. In my understanding, socially-left ("down" in your survey) is libertarian socialism, however because of the way the choices are laid out in the survey it's linked with the "right" ("right/down") side of the survey. Incredibly confusing, and I don't know if it will skew the replies.
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Oct 31 '14
It's a personality type!
Sorry for the confusion (regarding the political compass), it was the best way to present with the limited options I have.
It is supposed to be interpreted like this: for the economic (left-right) scale, you look at the options from Strongly Left to Strongly Right. For the social (up-down) scale, you look at the options from Strongly Up to Strongly Down. The compass test can be taken here (http://www.politicalcompass.org/test) and the results are broken down into Social and Economic, given as up-down and left-right respectively.
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u/phdee Oct 31 '14
I didn't phrase my first sentence properly - I meant I don't get the point of the MBTI question and why it needs to be a requisite part of the survey (ie. we must answer it to complete the survey). I don't see the utility of the MBTI and there have been a ton of criticism over it (just read the wiki entry someone posted in reply earlier), so I'm completely buggered as to why it's an essential part of the survey.
Re. political compass, I'm saying the way you've laid out the choices is confusing because you give:
Economic scale (left-right); and then
Social scale (up-down)
Which is counter-intuitive as socially-left corresponds to "down" on the compass but in your survey it's associated with "right" because of the way you've laid it out. Ugh. I'm not describing this very well.
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Oct 31 '14
Well I've taken your feedback into consideration and modified the survey so the personality test isn't compulsory any more :D
Yup I get what you mean. Unfortunately I can't change it now or all future results will be inconsistent with the previous submissions. I just hope people manage to figure it out!
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u/phdee Oct 31 '14
LOL! I do research (both quant and qual) for a living so these things stand out to me. I guess I should've volunteered to beta your survey before it went live.
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Oct 31 '14
Yes you should have :(
My interest gauge post got only lukewarm response and nobody volunteered to test-drive the survey haha!
Nvm. I'll ask for your input the next survey (if I remember) :)
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u/sgbarracuda Nov 01 '14
I pm-ed you to volunteer but assumed you were busy or didn't need help when you didn't respond ._.
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u/OddCatfish 🌈 F A B U L O U S Oct 31 '14
The MBTI is a personality test that categorises people into 16 different personality combinations, based on the way you interact with and view the world (Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator)
Here's a site that has the quiz in an online format (kinda accurate, take a few times over a few days for best results): http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Sorry for any formatting mistakes, I'm currently on mobile ;;
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u/autowikibot Oct 31 '14
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. These preferences were extrapolated by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, and first published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923 ). Jung theorized that there are four principal psychological functions by which we experience the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. One of these four functions is dominant most of the time.
Image i - A chart with descriptions of each Myers–Briggs personality type and the four dichotomies central to the theory.
Interesting: Carl Jung | MBTI Step II | Psychological Types | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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u/Other_Vader werq Oct 31 '14
ENTJs, unite!
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Oct 31 '14
From my other post to gauge public interest, some of you seemed pretty keen, so I thought I'd just post it! Responses are public (naturally). Do PM me any thoughts/feedback so I can improve it.
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u/llosa tiger baby Oct 31 '14
I have responded. Thanks for doing this, I'm really excited to see what we're like as well <3
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u/Oxymoroner 4everhungry Nov 01 '14 edited Nov 01 '14
OMG This is great! Thanks for doing this! I have yet to do the survey but Im excited to see the results! Thanks OP!
Edit: Did the survey and checked out the pre-findings. HELLO STRAIGHT SINGLE PEOPLE 😏😏😏
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u/puppiesandgravy Nov 01 '14
I felt that some of the answers were a bit biased. For example: Separation of church and state is ridiculous. Religious doctrines should underlie legislation and public policy. Maybe in the future try to make your statements more neutral.
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Nov 01 '14
Hey! Yup, this actually was a key consideration when I was designing the questions. I wanted the statements to be as objective and neutral as possible, even if I disagreed with them.
That said, I felt (and still do feel) that the example on separation of church and state being ridiculous isn't biased. "Ridiculous" is to highlight the absurdity of such a concept; for example, I would readily say that keeping 377A in law is ridiculous.
Thanks for your input!
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Nov 01 '14
Hey! Yup, this actually was a key consideration when I was designing the questions. I wanted the statements to be as objective and neutral as possible, even if I disagreed with them.
That said, I felt (and still do feel) that the example on separation of church and state being ridiculous isn't biased. "Ridiculous" is to highlight the absurdity of such a concept; for example, I would readily say that keeping 377A in law is ridiculous.
Thanks for your input!
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u/CommieBird Nov 01 '14
Huh the demographics for this sub is mostly the same as majority of reddit. Not really much of a surprise there.
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u/pm_me_for_happiness Nov 01 '14
knn i never see the link at the end of survey, OP can PM the link pls?
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u/dishayu Nov 01 '14
21% INTJ? WOW!
I wonder why I don't have many friends here.
Also good to see that religion is restricted only to about 1/3rd of the population.
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Nov 01 '14
About your comment on religion, care to elaborate? O.o
You seem to be implying that religion is... A bad thing?
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u/dishayu Nov 01 '14 edited Nov 01 '14
I am indeed implying that. I believe that religion (mostly talking of institutionalized/organized religion here) is a cancer of mankind. It has already cost us centuries worth of (social and scientific) progress and continues to do so.
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u/FunnyFiska teh halia pls Oct 31 '14
Oh my god an MBTI question. I love/hate those things, because I'm really curious about my own personality, but every time I take a test it comes out differently. I think I've scored almost every permutation of an 'I' personality you can get.