Astral Codex Ten

ACX survey

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ACX survey

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ACX survey is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between March 16, 2023 and May 15, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’ll post a replication attempt from the ACX survey data”; “I asked people about their gender and their joint disorders on the ACX survey”; “on the ACX survey”. It most often appears alongside ACX Survey, ACX Survey Results, Adderall.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: March 16, 2023
  • Last seen: May 15, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Why Do Transgender People Report Hypermobile Joints?
March 16, 2023 · Original source
Pirate Wires recently reported that transgender and bisexual people were more likely (20 - 25%) to report Long COVID compared to cisgender and straight people (~15%, yes, all these numbers are really high and you shouldn’t exactly believe them). There are lots of possible confounders, and I’ll post a replication attempt from the ACX survey data sometime, but a pretty plausible explanation is that some Long COVID is psychosomatic, all forms of neurodivergence correlate with each other, and so bi and trans people will report more of every psychosomatic condition.
Inline links: Pirate Wires recently reported
In order to learn more about this, I asked people about their gender and their joint disorders on the ACX survey, taken by about 7000 people.
Some ACX survey respondents kindly indicated that I could email them if I had any questions about their responses. I asked some trans people with joint mobility issues to tell me their stories. Here’s a typical response:
Attempts To Put Statistics In Context, Put Into Context
June 08, 2023 · Original source
IQ affects grades more than political affiliation (liberal vs. conservative) affects whether or not you like Donald Trump (on the ACX survey).
Political conservatism vs. support for Trump (on ACX survey): 0.5
Inline links: 0.5
Book Review: Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids
May 15, 2025 · Original source
But it’s not just addiction. What if they wander into the wrong part of the Internet and become incels, or SJWs with seven genders, or sedevacantists? Lots of people get one or another mind virus; why should my kids be immune? Because I’ll give them a happy childhood? I checked this on the ACX survey, and although alt-rightists did have significantly less happy childhoods than normal liberals (5.93 vs. 6.70 on a ten-point scale), the effect was too weak to rely on on an individual level (46% of alt-rightists had happier childhoods than the average liberal). Also, I married the only centrist-classical-liberal woman left in the San Francisco Bay Area - what kind of off-the-chart-outlier genes did she need in order to pull that off? If my son inherits those genes in a male body and moves to Chicago or something, will he become the next Costin Alamariu? And what about our daughter? What percent of women from intellectually-inclined non-practicing-Jewish families avoid becoming insane woke people? 20%? 10%? Sure, we’ll try to inculcate her into our reasonable liberal culture. But what do you think all those woke teenagers are rebelling against?