{"id":75,"date":"2011-07-10T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/07\/turing-test-update\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T02:10:46","slug":"turing-test-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/07\/turing-test-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Turing Test Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In light of the interest in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/search\/label\/turing%20atheist%20answers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u2018Atheist\u2019 round<\/a> of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/p\/ideological-turing-test-contest.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ideological Turing Test<\/a>, I\u2019m extending the deadline for submitting answers until <strong>midnight on Tuesday night<\/strong>, so keep forwarding the link around!<\/p>\n<p>The answers to the \u2018Christian\u2019 slate of questions will start going up early Monday morning. There are fifteen answers in all (from the same slate of contestants who participated in the first round). If you don\u2019t want to have too much to slog through when the ballot goes up on Friday, I recommend keeping a note of your guesses as you read the answers during the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">Sign up for next time<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WEHklbA__l0\/ThpUI9glh5I\/AAAAAAAABgQ\/dm5neCGzjhg\/s1600\/signing.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WEHklbA__l0\/ThpUI9glh5I\/AAAAAAAABgQ\/dm5neCGzjhg\/s320\/signing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"237\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>People have been using the comments to ask if they can participate in another iteration of this test but trying to keep tabs of requests all over the site is a recipe for disaster. If you\u2019d like to be considered to participate in another run of the Turing Test, <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dHJZX1loeUFhTHdzbTdONDdUVzNSS2c6MQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>fill out this form<\/strong><\/a>, so I have your email and biographical information.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never run this again with so many participants at once, but I\u2019m open to running smaller scale contests every now and again. We can revamp questions and maybe even set up a real-time contest in the future. Suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know when future contests\/ballots\/results are being posted, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/feeds\/posts\/default\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">follow this blog by RSS<\/a> or by email (sign up in the sidebar).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">Survey Format<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-oA0l6ihtcOA\/ThpT2f79zwI\/AAAAAAAABgM\/LQiZK7WDxk8\/s1600\/scantron.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-oA0l6ihtcOA\/ThpT2f79zwI\/AAAAAAAABgM\/LQiZK7WDxk8\/s320\/scantron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I know a number of you are frustrated by the format of the survey, and, since I\u2019ll be releasing another one for the same purpose on Friday, I\u2019m very open to suggestions. Here\u2019s what I need: online survey software that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is available for free (I don\u2019t make money off this blog)<\/li>\n<li>gives me access to the raw data, not just summaries (looking at you, SurveyMonkey, grump)<\/li>\n<li>lets me export the data in some reasonable format (.csv will do)<\/li>\n<li>makes it easy to set up open-ended questions as well as the table of ratings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or, absent that, I need someone to explain how I could persuade Google Forms to render those bit.ly links as hyperlinks (just typing html into the question did bupkis). Leave suggestions in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d also take suggestions for better labels for the four value Likert scale than \u201cChristian\/Lean Christian\/Lean Atheist\/Atheist.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to use words like \u201cstrong\/weak\u201d that could be interpreted to refer to the contestant\u2019s beliefs on a liberal\/conservative spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: large;\">Methodological Rigor?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-euwNxIZf81k\/ThpTvZAXVHI\/AAAAAAAABgI\/9kX98JkFFVA\/s1600\/microscope+peering.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-euwNxIZf81k\/ThpTvZAXVHI\/AAAAAAAABgI\/9kX98JkFFVA\/s320\/microscope+peering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"262\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A number of commenters have complained that this test is not particularly rigorous. That\u2019s absolutely true, and it\u2019s fine by me. If I were trying to make a definitive claim about whether atheists or Christians in the general population were, on average, more likely to be able to parrot each other\u2019s religious beliefs, I\u2019d have to be a lot more careful about how I ran the test, and I wouldn\u2019t be accepting votes from everyone who stops by on the internet (at least, not without a <em>lot<\/em> more demographic questions in the ballot so I could try to jury-rig a way to weight responses appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not out to <em>prove<\/em> something, I just want to start a discussion. The reasons the ~1000 of you who have filled out the survey so far have given for your guesses are of as much interest to me as the answers the atheists and Christians wrote. Stick around for the results in two weeks, after I run the atheists-pretending-to-be-Christians round, and I promise food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>And if anyone wants to run this kind of experiment with a rigorous methodology, let me know, and I\u2019ll link you and try to send you respondents (unless that messes up your sampling frame).<\/p>\n<p>P.S. This means if you link to my results and claim they <em>prove<\/em> your side is better informed and thus correct, I will bop you on the nose.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4256452356987023523-3304537585113725838?l=www.unequally-yoked.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the interest in the \u2018Atheist\u2019 round of my Ideological Turing Test, I\u2019m extending the deadline for submitting answers until midnight on Tuesday night, so keep forwarding the link around! The answers to the \u2018Christian\u2019 slate of questions will start going up early Monday morning. 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