“Politics” included responses saying that EA was too woke/left and too capitalist (roughly twice as many in the former camp as the latter, but these are very small numbers so that ratio is inexact), and a very small number of mentions of too much politics, too little politics.
For this question, people could mention any number of things in principle, i.e. they could write literally anything they wanted, but each response was only coded as representing a single category that was thought to best reflect that comment.
For “new to EA” and “peripheral”: people would often say things like “I’m new to EA, so I don’t really know” or “I’m only peripherally engaged with the community, so I don’t really know” to explain their ratings.
“More community/influence” captured comments saying they wanted to EA community to do more, particularly involving becoming more of a community or a larger community or influencing people more.
For becoming more of a community, it seems like this could be read as a negative (e.g. people don’t feel welcome by the existing community, while the latter sounds quite positive—people are happy with the way the community influences and want more of it?
So I could imagine that might be reason for giving this factor both positive or negative rating
it seems like this could be read as a negative (e.g. people don’t feel welcome by the existing community, while the latter sounds quite positive—people are happy with the way the community influences and want more of it?
A lot of the ratings/comments were ambivalent in this way. This was in response to the question “Why did you give the two ratings [1-10] above?” rather than something like “Why did you give a positive/negative rating?” A lot of comments, were of the form “The community is great, but it should do more...”
Mean satisfaction ratings for people within the “More community/influence” category were 7.255 and mean satisfaction ratings overall were 7.259 (i.e. very similar).
Thanks for asking.
“Politics” included responses saying that EA was too woke/left and too capitalist (roughly twice as many in the former camp as the latter, but these are very small numbers so that ratio is inexact), and a very small number of mentions of too much politics, too little politics.
For this question, people could mention any number of things in principle, i.e. they could write literally anything they wanted, but each response was only coded as representing a single category that was thought to best reflect that comment.
Thanks David this is very helpful!
Also, under the “Why did you give the two ratings above?” what does “more community/influence” , “new to EA” and “peripheral” mean?
For “new to EA” and “peripheral”: people would often say things like “I’m new to EA, so I don’t really know” or “I’m only peripherally engaged with the community, so I don’t really know” to explain their ratings.
“More community/influence” captured comments saying they wanted to EA community to do more, particularly involving becoming more of a community or a larger community or influencing people more.
RE: “More community/influence”:
For becoming more of a community, it seems like this could be read as a negative (e.g. people don’t feel welcome by the existing community, while the latter sounds quite positive—people are happy with the way the community influences and want more of it?
So I could imagine that might be reason for giving this factor both positive or negative rating
A lot of the ratings/comments were ambivalent in this way. This was in response to the question “Why did you give the two ratings [1-10] above?” rather than something like “Why did you give a positive/negative rating?” A lot of comments, were of the form “The community is great, but it should do more...”
Mean satisfaction ratings for people within the “More community/influence” category were 7.255 and mean satisfaction ratings overall were 7.259 (i.e. very similar).