I’ll provide my own current thoughts on each of those questions in separate comments. These thoughts are tentative, and I hope to learn about other people’s views on this as well (otherwise this wouldn’t be a question post).
As usual, my comments don’t necessarily reflect the views of my past or present employers.
I’m not aware of any other research orgs or individual researchers who run such surveys, within or outside of EA. But this may simply reflect a lack of knowledge on my part.
(That said, I have seen various individual EAs provide links to forms for general anonymous feedback. I think that’s also a good idea, and I’ve copied the idea in my own forum bio. But that’s fairly different to actively promoting a survey with specific questions about one’s research/​writings.)
Update: The Happier Lives Institute are now running a survey about the quality and impact of their research outputs. (It’s linked to from their latest newsletter.)
Exciting to see another organisation join the (seemingly) very small club of organisations who do this!
I’ll provide my own current thoughts on each of those questions in separate comments. These thoughts are tentative, and I hope to learn about other people’s views on this as well (otherwise this wouldn’t be a question post).
As usual, my comments don’t necessarily reflect the views of my past or present employers.
On Q1
Rethink Priorities has run this sort of survey once, and they indicate they plan to do it once per year. 80,000 Hours also runs this sort of survey annually. And I recently ran a survey about my own writings, inspired by Rethink’s survey. (If you haven’t taken it yet, please consider doing so!)
I’m not aware of any other research orgs or individual researchers who run such surveys, within or outside of EA. But this may simply reflect a lack of knowledge on my part.
(That said, I have seen various individual EAs provide links to forms for general anonymous feedback. I think that’s also a good idea, and I’ve copied the idea in my own forum bio. But that’s fairly different to actively promoting a survey with specific questions about one’s research/​writings.)
Update: The Happier Lives Institute are now running a survey about the quality and impact of their research outputs. (It’s linked to from their latest newsletter.)
Exciting to see another organisation join the (seemingly) very small club of organisations who do this!