To Imane, pt 81

Looks like I lied or was wrong again.

I was thinking about how my mum doesn't watch anything I consider interesting. Part of the reason some people watch videos that aren't just entertainment is so they have more things to talk about with other people. Videos that explain things about the real world have more potential to help people to solve problems.

So I thought of the question, "Generally speaking, do you think that problems in the world are your responsibility?"

But this question is only interesting because of disagreement and misunderstandings. So a better question is this:

What percentage of people do you think would answer yes to this question: "Generally speaking, do you think that problems in the world are your responsibility?"

There's definitely some bias. People who think the question is important enough to answer, or important enough to share and therefore get more people to answer it, are people who think more than average. People who can't read won't even be on the platform on which it's asked. But it's still a question on which there might be a polar division in responses, instead of a normal-type distribution with a single peak.

The question is slightly ambiguous, by not saying "people on this platform". Some people might implicitly include that in the question and anticipate a bias for the platform. But if there is real disagreement about how people would answer the question, I think this wording can still detect it.

Somewhat similar to the poll in pt 44.

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Update 13 May 2026, 19:43

For the record, my guess is 20% would say yes.