[Edit: The list of stakeholders/beta-testers has grown quite a lot so it might take over a week from today (Tuesday Feb 6) to get it out and finish all the review I want. I’m likely to make a forum post on this survey in a day or two, to set expectations on timing and let the community know things are being done. The remainder of this comment has been updated for what’s true today]
Thanks! Well I’d rather not use the forum front-page to promote a work-in-progress. The survey is already looking pretty long, and the survey is for all EAs of all genders so it will be quite a community-wide effort already. I don’t want to use people’s potentially limited energy for this topic by making them read a pre-post.
FWIW I also posted in the Women and Non-Binary EA Facebook group, which has been getting some good responses and DMs. I’ve also had a deep discussion with Catherine Low of the Community Health Team and she’ll be as involved at all the key junctions.
I also hope to specifically get feedback from at least a couple of the women in the TIME piece, the leaders of the EA Diversity Group (who messaged me), GSand, J_J, and ~5 people who do survey design professionally (the Rethink Priorities Survey Team, Spencer Greenberg of Guided Track, and an Austin EA I know). I have only messaged maybe 20% of these people so far and I’d rather not make a public post til I’ve messaged all of them.
From there it will be shared to other beta-testers’ (like my friends and EAs who messaged me wishing to beta-test).
And then it will done and be shared with the community broadly.
I think this is enough that I don’t need to make a standalone post to request feedback (though good to share to set people’s minds at ease). It’s also already a lot of things for me to track tbh. But if anyone is reading this here, you can still DM me or comment your thoughts or ask to get involved!
Thanks for the response, yeah I agree that this does sound like you’re reaching out to sufficiently many people with good ideas to make this survey particularly informative.
FWIW, if I understand your reservations correctly, I personally wouldn’t worry a) that sharing your work-in-progress plans comes across as a promotion of your work. I think it’s a project that is meant to help the broader EA community and requesting feedback for a survey / offering to adapt a survey based on requests from others is reasonable, collaborative and useful. b) about taking up people’s time, as I feel like people can decide for themselves what they want to spend their limited time on and I’d then make that decision for them.
Looking forward to read the results, thanks again for doing this!
[I edited my comment above to more accurately reflect the state and timeline of project, and this comment is my way of pinging you that. I’m likely to make a pre-post sometime after all, just cuz of setting people’s minds at ease that things are being tried and projects are in the pipeline re: EA gender/sex stuff]
[Edit: The list of stakeholders/beta-testers has grown quite a lot so it might take over a week from today (Tuesday Feb 6) to get it out and finish all the review I want. I’m likely to make a forum post on this survey in a day or two, to set expectations on timing and let the community know things are being done. The remainder of this comment has been updated for what’s true today]
Thanks! Well I’d rather not use the forum front-page to promote a work-in-progress. The survey is already looking pretty long, and the survey is for all EAs of all genders so it will be quite a community-wide effort already.
I don’t want to use people’s potentially limited energy for this topic by making them read a pre-post.FWIW I also posted in the Women and Non-Binary EA Facebook group, which has been getting some good responses and DMs. I’ve also had a deep discussion with Catherine Low of the Community Health Team and she’ll be as involved at all the key junctions.
I also hope to specifically get feedback from at least a couple of the women in the TIME piece, the leaders of the EA Diversity Group (who messaged me), GSand, J_J, and ~5 people who do survey design professionally (the Rethink Priorities Survey Team, Spencer Greenberg of Guided Track, and an Austin EA I know). I have only messaged maybe 20% of these people so far and I’d rather not make a public post til I’ve messaged all of them.
From there it will be shared to other beta-testers’ (like my friends and EAs who messaged me wishing to beta-test).
And then it will done and be shared with the community broadly.
I think this is enough that I don’t need to make a standalone post to request feedback (though good to share to set people’s minds at ease). It’s also already a lot of things for me to track tbh. But if anyone is reading this here, you can still DM me or comment your thoughts or ask to get involved!
Thanks for the response, yeah I agree that this does sound like you’re reaching out to sufficiently many people with good ideas to make this survey particularly informative.
FWIW, if I understand your reservations correctly, I personally wouldn’t worry
a) that sharing your work-in-progress plans comes across as a promotion of your work. I think it’s a project that is meant to help the broader EA community and requesting feedback for a survey / offering to adapt a survey based on requests from others is reasonable, collaborative and useful.
b) about taking up people’s time, as I feel like people can decide for themselves what they want to spend their limited time on and I’d then make that decision for them.
Looking forward to read the results, thanks again for doing this!
[I edited my comment above to more accurately reflect the state and timeline of project, and this comment is my way of pinging you that. I’m likely to make a pre-post sometime after all, just cuz of setting people’s minds at ease that things are being tried and projects are in the pipeline re: EA gender/sex stuff]