35% of people said personal contact with EAs was important for them getting involved
38% said personal contacts had the largest influence on their personal ability to have a positive impact
I just wanted to check whether you didn’t accidentally cite the OP Survey rather than the EA Survey? These results and question wording are identical to the 2020 EA Survey: 35.4% said “personal contact with EAs” was “important for [them] getting involved in EA”, 38.7% said personal contact with EAs… had the largest influence on your personal ability to have a personal impact?”
It’s true that the OP survey and EAS asked many of the same questions, and it’s true that the OP survey and EAS tend to get exceptionally similar results (when you filter for highly engaged EAs), but that seems like quite the coincidence, and I don’t think OP actually asked both these questions.
Fwiw, I think the OP Survey and EAS are both complementary and it’s generally good to cite both. Much more could be written about the circumstances in which it makes sense to use different results of each of these surveys, since I think it is not straightforward. I’d like the survey team to do this sometime, but we lack capacity at present.
I just wanted to check whether you didn’t accidentally cite the OP Survey rather than the EA Survey? These results and question wording are identical to the 2020 EA Survey: 35.4% said “personal contact with EAs” was “important for [them] getting involved in EA”, 38.7% said personal contact with EAs… had the largest influence on your personal ability to have a personal impact?”
It’s true that the OP survey and EAS asked many of the same questions, and it’s true that the OP survey and EAS tend to get exceptionally similar results (when you filter for highly engaged EAs), but that seems like quite the coincidence, and I don’t think OP actually asked both these questions.
Fwiw, I think the OP Survey and EAS are both complementary and it’s generally good to cite both. Much more could be written about the circumstances in which it makes sense to use different results of each of these surveys, since I think it is not straightforward. I’d like the survey team to do this sometime, but we lack capacity at present.