Watts-Lab / deliberation-topics

Collection of deliberation topics and infrastructure for measuring their properties
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Add question answer choices to ANES topics #16

Closed JamesPHoughton closed 2 years ago

JamesPHoughton commented 2 years ago

The way the topics from the ANES are written, each topic can have a unique set of responses. We want our answer choices to match this pattern, and be something we can programmatically ask as a question both prior to and during a discussion. We should expand the current topic descriptions from the anes. They currently are formatted as:

# Federal spending on aid to the poor

## Prompt
What about aid to the poor? Should federal spending on aid to
the poor be increased, decreased, or kept the same?

we can create a separate section to contain the original response options as similar to:

# Federal spending on aid to the poor

## Prompt
What about aid to the poor? Should federal spending on aid to
the poor be increased, decreased, or kept the same?

## Responses
- Increased
- Kept the Same
- Decreased

Lets start by doing this for 5 topics and trying it out to see how it works.

isaacgat commented 2 years ago

I'm going to pick one topic of each type (Economic, Moral, Civil Rights, Security, and Non-Partisan) that offers 5 choices for responses.

isaacgat commented 2 years ago
isaacgat commented 2 years ago

I updated these issues in the topics repo. Waiting on PR approval.