I see a couple of the questions have a lot of missing data concentrated at the start of the dataset (e.g. “Fund Edith for one year”, “Improve big company safety orientation 5 percentage points”). Is there a particular reason for that, i.e. the questions were added to the survey part way through, after some respondents had already taken it? (This influences how we should interpret the missing data).
In that case, dropping those two items, the responses seem pretty coherent, in that you can see a fairly clear pattern of support for ~ policy and think tanks, ~ outreach, and ~ technical work cohering together.[1] I think this is reassuring about the meaningfulness of people’s responses (while not, of course, suggesting that they got the substantive values right).
The exact results vary depending on the nuances of the analysis, of course, so I wouldn’t read too much into the specifics of the results above without digging into it more yourself, though we found broadly the same pattern across a number of different analyses.
I see a couple of the questions have a lot of missing data concentrated at the start of the dataset (e.g. “Fund Edith for one year”, “Improve big company safety orientation 5 percentage points”). Is there a particular reason for that, i.e. the questions were added to the survey part way through, after some respondents had already taken it? (This influences how we should interpret the missing data).
Yes, I added them partway through after thinking about the question set more.
Thanks, makes sense!
In that case, dropping those two items, the responses seem pretty coherent, in that you can see a fairly clear pattern of support for ~ policy and think tanks, ~ outreach, and ~ technical work cohering together.[1] I think this is reassuring about the meaningfulness of people’s responses (while not, of course, suggesting that they got the substantive values right).
The exact results vary depending on the nuances of the analysis, of course, so I wouldn’t read too much into the specifics of the results above without digging into it more yourself, though we found broadly the same pattern across a number of different analyses.