EA Hub, EA survey, and traffic for EA forum are all samples of the sorts of people who actively participate in EA online. They’re all going to be biased in roughly the same way, so the fact that they say similar things is not strong evidence that they provide a representative sample.
Yep, agree with this. Sadly since online surveys tend to be the easiest way to conduct these, we don’t really have much different data. There are a few things we will hopefully be able to estimate soon, which might help us spot inconsistencies between these:
of members in EA student chapters in different locations
of people who attend different EAGx events
Origin of people who attend EAG (sadly we only have country-wide data for this year’s EAG, since our registration completion rates dropped quite a bit when we increased the length, so we had to cut some questions)
Distribution of people engaging with the EA Facebook groups
Distribution of people having taken the GWWC pledge
Distribution of people who donate to meta-EA charities
Geographic distribution of newsletter subscribers for 80K and the EA newsletter
I would guess that at some point CEA will look into all of these, though I would be somewhat surprised if any of these massively disagree with the EA-hub/survey data. Still seems valuable to check though.
EA Hub, EA survey, and traffic for EA forum are all samples of the sorts of people who actively participate in EA online. They’re all going to be biased in roughly the same way, so the fact that they say similar things is not strong evidence that they provide a representative sample.
Yep, agree with this. Sadly since online surveys tend to be the easiest way to conduct these, we don’t really have much different data. There are a few things we will hopefully be able to estimate soon, which might help us spot inconsistencies between these:
of members in EA student chapters in different locations
of people who attend different EAGx events
Origin of people who attend EAG (sadly we only have country-wide data for this year’s EAG, since our registration completion rates dropped quite a bit when we increased the length, so we had to cut some questions)
Distribution of people engaging with the EA Facebook groups
Distribution of people having taken the GWWC pledge
Distribution of people who donate to meta-EA charities
Geographic distribution of newsletter subscribers for 80K and the EA newsletter
I would guess that at some point CEA will look into all of these, though I would be somewhat surprised if any of these massively disagree with the EA-hub/survey data. Still seems valuable to check though.