How we created a tolerometer for Indians

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3 pointstmatthewj3 comments

Pretty cool idea although I'm not fond of the execution - I think people can easily be biased or lead into favorable answers on the questions you have asked - may be the next step would be to design a Milgram experiment for tolerance?

Another aspect of this kind of social experiment or social science project is, how do you establish that you are non-partisan and non-biased? As well-intentioned as it is, there is a chance that this can be misconstrued as a propaganda that says "India is more tolerant than you think".

Agree with you. The execution could've been much better. To start with, it always make sense to do a validated questionnaire experiment than come up with a new survey like we did.

Talking about Milgram and similar experiments, though they are known to help achieve unbiased observations about human behavior, it actually doesn't rule out the validity of a well executed questionnaire experiment. Good questionnaires take care of authenticity using a lie score that tries to detect if the subject is trying to make himself / herself look good with the answers.

So, do you have a lie score for this experiment?

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