The mods have been doing a fantastic job. That being said, the past surveys were a let down. The community came up with pretty lazy questions (I share blame for that).

We could have easily used the opportunity to challenge people's thoughts and understandings of the positions.

E.g. One question that recently popped up in my mind was inspired by that SMV thread. The top responses were basically, "There is no SMV. You're either attracted to someone or you're not."

Frankly, that's absurd, and I think the only reason that relatively benign, uncontroversial concept is argued against is because it is often used by rpers.

Worded differently: "Different physical traits, personalities, roles are in higher demand than others; thus, different people are in higher demand for relationships/sex than others."

... I'm fairly sure most people would be agreeable. Most of us don't walk around in willful ignorance about relative attractiveness. Most of us have a general idea of what other people might find attractive, not just what we personally find attractive.

It would be more likely that an rper or pper to word it thus to make it sound more agreeable, because it's less likely that a bper would word an rp idea in a favourable light.

Now, this is a type of question that may have actually made moderates understand each other better on, and leave extremists in the dust.

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Tangentially related is a criticism I have of another survey posted in this sub, here.

A good practice for opinion-based surveys is to attach this extra dimension to the question: level of importance. I.e. "How important is this question to you?"

Without taking this layer into consideration, you end up with a lot of confusion. E.g. The result I ended up with in the previously linked survey outed me as a liberal feminist woman of color. Same or even higher score than many bpers. I'm not bothered to be associated with bpers in this way, but it's not accurate. Obvious differences exist in my attitude towards the questions. E.g. While I strongly agree there's a gender wage gap, I don't think it's a big deal. A large portion of it is justifiable. So the issue probably wouldn't be as important to me as a crusading feminist.

Also, while I do think hypergamy exists, and technically more common with women, it's not a huge deal to me (I'd rank that kind of question low in terms of "importance"). It's entirely justifiable if men are generally making more money. Occupational social mobility naturally is balanced out by marital social mobility, after all. This may end up distancing me from some of fringe rpers. Don't ask me how the importance of hypergamy might affect their thinking. Maybe it just makes them mad. Who knows.

Feel free to suggest your own questions that cast rp ideas in a more mundane/acceptable light, or more extreme/unacceptable light. Either way, more interesting results may come around than what we'll end up with in the current survey.

Some people might find that others in their group are batshit insane. Some others may find that they're only disagreeing with their opposition on rhetoric/tone or semantics alone.