“People have found my summaries and collections very useful, and some people have found my original research not so useful/impressive”
I haven’t read enough of your original research to know whether it applies in your case but just flagging that most original research has a much narrower target audience than the summaries/collections, so I’d expect fewer people to find it useful (and for a relatively broad summary to be biased against them).
That said, as you know, I think your summaries/collections are useful and underprovided.
Though I guess I suspect that, if the reason a person finds my original research not so useful is just because they aren’t the target audience, they’d be more likely to either not explicitly comment on it or to say something about it not seeming relevant to them. (Rather than making a generic comment about it not seeming useful.)
But I guess this seems less likely in cases where:
the person doesn’t realise that the key reason it wasn’t useful is that they weren’t the target audience, or
the person feels that what they’re focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then they’ll perceive “useful to them” as meaning a very similar thing to “useful”)
In any case, I’m definitely just taking this survey as providing weak (though useful) evidence, and combining it with various other sources of evidence.
“People have found my summaries and collections very useful, and some people have found my original research not so useful/impressive”
I haven’t read enough of your original research to know whether it applies in your case but just flagging that most original research has a much narrower target audience than the summaries/collections, so I’d expect fewer people to find it useful (and for a relatively broad summary to be biased against them).
That said, as you know, I think your summaries/collections are useful and underprovided.
Good point.
Though I guess I suspect that, if the reason a person finds my original research not so useful is just because they aren’t the target audience, they’d be more likely to either not explicitly comment on it or to say something about it not seeming relevant to them. (Rather than making a generic comment about it not seeming useful.)
But I guess this seems less likely in cases where:
the person doesn’t realise that the key reason it wasn’t useful is that they weren’t the target audience, or
the person feels that what they’re focused on is substantially more important than anything else (because then they’ll perceive “useful to them” as meaning a very similar thing to “useful”)
In any case, I’m definitely just taking this survey as providing weak (though useful) evidence, and combining it with various other sources of evidence.
Seems reasonable