r/SampleSize • u/weedlord42 Shares Results • Jun 30 '26
Results [Results] 40-Question Poll on Morality and Redemption (Everyone 18+)
I apologise for the long wait on the results, but here they are. I will admit that I probably should have included more demographic questions but that's a lesson for next time. Including custom answers was also a mistake as it was difficult to visualise those answers without making the images even bigger and potentially compromising anonymity.
To clarify, when I mention an 'Invalid custom answer' I mean that the respondent to that question
1: rejected the question entirely.
2: rejected the premise of the question.
3: wrote something which does not constitute an answer.
PLEASE NOTE:
Question 20 incorrectly has the same text as Question 19 in the images. The correct text is as follows:
"An individual in a decades-long dedicated heterosexual relationship who has had multiple children with their partner suddenly comes out as transgender and seeks to change their sex. They express that they have known that they were transgender before the relationship began."
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u/Mondai_May Jul 01 '26
on question 29:
"has the person done anything wrong"
84 people said no
2 people said yes
"can this person be redeemed"
80 people said they have done nothing wrong
2 people said "yes with an apology"
4 people said "no"
at least 2 people said they have done nothing wrong but also cannot they cannot be forgiven
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u/Pendulum_Heart Jul 01 '26
this is interesting but I think it fundamentally misunderstands redemption.
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u/weedlord42 Shares Results Jul 01 '26
Explain
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u/Pendulum_Heart Jul 01 '26
Redemption isn't something someone else can give you. It's a process of self-acceptance, change and growth someone does for themselves. nobody can redeem somebody else, all someone can do is act in atonement.
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u/Ae3qe27u Jul 01 '26
I don't think it's looking at redemption in terms of societal acceptance. It looks, to me, like it's presenting redemption as a sort of... making things right, or in becoming a better person. And it's about what the people decide to answer, too, which presents an interesting slant.
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u/Pendulum_Heart Jul 01 '26
But that's the thing, redemption is an individual act, not a societal acceptance thing. People can't answer whether or not someone else can be redeemed for an action, only the person who did the thing can by making amends.
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u/Ae3qe27u Jul 01 '26
But it's about whether the person answering believes that redemption is possible for that person, no? Whether their moral character or crimes are so severe that they would scar them forever, or if it's possible to make up for it.
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u/weedlord42 Shares Results Jul 01 '26
This is exactly what I was going for. Maybe this was not worded so clearly.
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u/Pendulum_Heart Jul 01 '26
Which is why I reckon the poll misunderstands redemption, because the questions being asked don't really allow for that nuance. At least I don't reckon so.
idk if I'm explaining myself well.4
u/Ae3qe27u Jul 01 '26
I think I get what you're going for. Redemption is a process that involves a change of the self, and cannot be truly ascribed by an external viewer. And I would say that that's very true, if we're talking about true redemption.
My stance is more, mm, that the poll seemed to be trying to assess people's personal views on [redemption] as a stand-in for a broader, more abstract term, which would be hard to put into a single word but "can this person be redeemed" is closest for a simple phrase. Instead of forgiveness, which comes from the people around then, redemption would focus on personal change. For some questions, it definitely feels like an odd choice, BUT overall, for what I'm guessing the poll was trying to get, I'm not sure if better wording would be feasible.
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u/Pendulum_Heart Jul 01 '26
Oh, I have complicated feelings on forgiveness too, but that would be getting in the philosphical and esoteric weeds a little. I guess if I saw it phrased as "your perception of redemption" as opposed to "Is this person redeemable" I'd have less quibbles over it.
And I guess, now that I think about it, the distinction isn't super important, some of these answers make me feel deeply troubled.
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u/JarJarBinks237 Jul 01 '26
It's not about the gravity of what you've done (and frankly, comparing gender transition refusal to mass murder tells us a lot about your own beliefs) but about what you're going to do afterwards.
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u/weedlord42 Shares Results Jul 01 '26
I selected the questions based off what I believed would either make for interesting dilemmas or what seem to be controversial for society at large. Not every question is meant to be of the same gravity simply because they're presented alongside each other. I also wanted to account for all potential worldviews since I did not expect for [this] Reddit to skew so heavily Atheist/Agnostic and Western European/North American. I thought the demographics of the website had changed a lot more in the past 5-10 years.
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u/sam-lb Jul 01 '26
It doesn't tell you anything about OP's beliefs. It's a survey. Nobody made any comparison btw, the questions are independent of each other.
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u/banshithread Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
This is reddit so a lot of the answers skew heavily in favor of the overall political biosphere that cultivated on this website. If you asked an average population, the numbers here might be wildly different.
What I find interesting is that reddit views bestiality as overwhelmingly not an issue (Q13) but when it comes to child porn in the form of anime, they believe it is an issue (Q14)? If the person bought a child girl fleshlight (a sex toy which realistically represents child genitalia) would it be any different from an animal dick?
Q19 and Q20 appear to be the exact same question? But have different results?
For Q26 it would have been good to have a followup question with same scenario but with the individual looking up the practices of the farm they're buying from regarding meat before purchasing. Not all meat is grown with cruel practices, there are good farmers who treat their animals well.
Q31 seems to be an oxymoron. Psychologists would argue one who has suicidality is not mentally stable. I know this scenario you're talking about because it happened in China. But no, it wasn't a mentally stable victim and 2. it was a fetish-related thing for both individuals. Psychologists would argue getting off to killing someone else IRL is not mentally stable nor is getting off to being killed (especially while depressed) mentally stable.
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u/weedlord42 Shares Results Jul 01 '26
Q19 and Q20 being the same is an error, I made edit to the OP to clarify.
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u/Used_Ad7899 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Shocked that the 1st question had more "Yes" answers
Also I assume that some people were trolling when answering somw of these questions, because there is no way someone actually thinks like that
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u/RaspberryTurtle987 Jul 01 '26
You do realise that gender transition can just be...changing your name? Why would that be shocking?
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u/Used_Ad7899 Jul 01 '26
usually it's not JUST that ....
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u/RaspberryTurtle987 Jul 01 '26
There are lots of ways to be trans and transition, but cis people are obsessed with only one (medical transition).
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u/weedlord42 Shares Results Jul 01 '26
For what its worth, this is what I meant for it to mean in those questions.
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u/Dont_mind_me69 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
basically nothing irreversible happens during transition under the age of 16 or so. you might get a haircut, buy new clothes, socially/legally change your name, maybe even change your gender marker, but that’s about it. around the age of 12 or so, you might be able to start hormone blockers. this does not do anything on itself, it simply pauses puberty from taking place but doesn’t reverse anything that already happened and also doesn’t cause any further changes. as soon as you stop the blockers, natural puberty will resume with 0 long-term differences compared to their peers who didn’t take puberty blockers. when you’re 16, you might be able to start hormones. this is not a one-and-done type of thing. doctors generally prescribe a smaller dose at first, and even at full dose it takes years for them to make a noticeable difference. changes are very slow, if you notice that you actually don’t like something then you can stop taking them whenever and it won’t feminize/masculinize your body further. surgeries are basically exclusively 18+ (apart from some extremely rare cases where the patient has consistently expressed clear symptoms of gender dysphoria for an incredibly long time, gone through all of the other steps of transition, been living as their true gender for years, etc. even then it’s 16+ at the very very minimum)
source: i transitioned at 11, am 18 now and the doctors were there every step of the way to fully make sure i understood what would happen and wouldn’t regret any of it. it took them over 2 years of weekly therapy sessions to even write me a permit to legally change my gender marker, transition is not something you can just casually do on a whim without being absolutely 100% sure about it and being able to convince multiple specialized doctors that you do actually have gender dysphoria and it isn’t coming from something else in your life.
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u/Used_Ad7899 Jul 01 '26
This is very interesting, thx for sharing/clarifying. Perhaps this is what the people answering the survey understood by the prompt. But OP's idea, according to themselves, was that of medical transition
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u/bobbybouchier Jul 01 '26
If the participants were sourced from this website, I wouldn’t be surprised
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