World Values Survey
Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures adds a family-and-gender use of the survey. Doug Dawson says only about 10% of Americans in the survey said a woman earning more than a man would cause problems, but Reported Income Gender Norms and relationship outcomes suggest actual couples are less comfortable than direct answers imply.
The World Values Survey appears in A hawk who flew on political winds: Lindsey Graham as the cross-national survey instrument used to compare frontier AI model answers with human cultural patterns. The episode says the survey has tracked beliefs and moods since 1981 across more than 100 countries.
In the source, the survey’s value is comparative. It maps societies from traditional to secular and from survival-oriented to self-expression-oriented, giving AI Model Value Surveying a way to say that many AI models resemble rich-country, secular, self-expression-oriented societies rather than being neutral or placeless.
Connections
- Sondre Solstad - Economist participant explaining the survey experiment.
- Female Breadwinner Norms, Reported Income Gender Norms, and Doug Dawson - gender-norm use of the survey in the later source.
- AI Model Value Surveying - method that applies the survey to AI models.
- Language-Dependent AI Bias - related question of how language and training corpus shape answers.
- AI Advice Moral Outsourcing - downstream reason model values matter.