Excellent job, thanks for taking the time to analyze the data so well. Kudos!
I’m glad the survey asked questions about how welcomed people feel. It’s really important to help people feel welcomed in order to motivate them to engage with EA well. It’s concerned to me that 36% percent felt that the EA community was not actively welcoming, and of those a quarter felt that the EA community was actively unwelcoming.
This number is very similar to the outcomes of another question that makes me highly concerned, “Do insecurities about not being “EA enough” sometimes prevent you from taking action or participating more in the EA community?” The fact that 37% answered yes make this an obvious area of concern, as the survey report correctly identified. I’d be highly interested in seeing what is the correlation between these two questions, and would be willing to bet money the correlation is not insignificant.
Of course, the likely number for these 2 questions is much higher, since many more of the people who feel this way would not take the survey. I think Julia’s recent post has some great ideas about how to address this issue.
I’d also like to see the correlation between those people who feel this way and the amount and proportion of income of donations. Like others, I’m concerned that the median number is only $330. Are the people who perceive a high obligation to give and insecurities about not being “EA enough” also the ones not donating much or are they donating more than the average EA? That would impact how to address the question of how to get the median donation up.
On the positive side, I see that the average proportion donated by EAs is 7.5% of their annual income, which is 350% higher than the average donated by Americans. Nice to see that number.
Overall, I think that being more welcoming would cause more people to be more positively engaged with the EA community, identify more strongly as EAs, and be more eager to give their money and time. This should be a win-win!
Excellent job, thanks for taking the time to analyze the data so well. Kudos!
I’m glad the survey asked questions about how welcomed people feel. It’s really important to help people feel welcomed in order to motivate them to engage with EA well. It’s concerned to me that 36% percent felt that the EA community was not actively welcoming, and of those a quarter felt that the EA community was actively unwelcoming.
This number is very similar to the outcomes of another question that makes me highly concerned, “Do insecurities about not being “EA enough” sometimes prevent you from taking action or participating more in the EA community?” The fact that 37% answered yes make this an obvious area of concern, as the survey report correctly identified. I’d be highly interested in seeing what is the correlation between these two questions, and would be willing to bet money the correlation is not insignificant.
Of course, the likely number for these 2 questions is much higher, since many more of the people who feel this way would not take the survey. I think Julia’s recent post has some great ideas about how to address this issue.
I’d also like to see the correlation between those people who feel this way and the amount and proportion of income of donations. Like others, I’m concerned that the median number is only $330. Are the people who perceive a high obligation to give and insecurities about not being “EA enough” also the ones not donating much or are they donating more than the average EA? That would impact how to address the question of how to get the median donation up.
On the positive side, I see that the average proportion donated by EAs is 7.5% of their annual income, which is 350% higher than the average donated by Americans. Nice to see that number.
Overall, I think that being more welcoming would cause more people to be more positively engaged with the EA community, identify more strongly as EAs, and be more eager to give their money and time. This should be a win-win!