Polis seems cool, especially after hearing about it on Audrey Tang’s podcast. But I found it frustrating to have to either pick ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, or ‘unsure’. Some claims I really endorsed, while some I felt the claim didn’t represent my opinion, but I landed marginally closer to ‘agree’ than any other option. Both cases are treated identical in Polis. How much more difficult would it be to build qualified agreement into Polis? Simplest case would be a Likert scale (e.g. strongly disagree to strongly agree), more complex would be two 100-point scales for agreement and for confidence of agreement. Maybe that’d make analysis intractable, but I dunno.
Polis seems cool, especially after hearing about it on Audrey Tang’s podcast. But I found it frustrating to have to either pick ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, or ‘unsure’. Some claims I really endorsed, while some I felt the claim didn’t represent my opinion, but I landed marginally closer to ‘agree’ than any other option. Both cases are treated identical in Polis. How much more difficult would it be to build qualified agreement into Polis? Simplest case would be a Likert scale (e.g. strongly disagree to strongly agree), more complex would be two 100-point scales for agreement and for confidence of agreement. Maybe that’d make analysis intractable, but I dunno.
I don’t think this is the key bottleneck. I think Pol.is is just too hard to use and get feedback from.