Episode 2
SSC SURVEY RESULTS ON TRUST
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Jeremiah Prophet
October 11, 20177m 37s
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Show Notes
Last post talked about individual differences in whether people found others basically friendly or hostile. The SSC survey included a sort of related question: "Are people basically trustworthy?"
The exact phrasing asked respondents to rate other people from 1 ("basically trustworthy") to 5 ("basically untrustworthy"). 4853 people answered. The average was 2.49 – so skewed a bit towards higher trust. The overall pattern looked like this: