Agreed. When I was reading the article, I thought, “Oh yes! I’m a subscriber. What a clever way of describing me.”
When I read the actual questions, I realized there’s no way I would have been counted as a subscriber. Because I regularly volunteer, other people would definitely describe me as EA, even if I’m a bit on the fence.
It seems like your causality might go this way as well. Rather than “subscribers volunteer less,” the story might actually be “people who volunteer for the community know that others describe them as EA, so volunteers are usually identifiers.”
Agreed. When I was reading the article, I thought, “Oh yes! I’m a subscriber. What a clever way of describing me.”
When I read the actual questions, I realized there’s no way I would have been counted as a subscriber. Because I regularly volunteer, other people would definitely describe me as EA, even if I’m a bit on the fence.
It seems like your causality might go this way as well. Rather than “subscribers volunteer less,” the story might actually be “people who volunteer for the community know that others describe them as EA, so volunteers are usually identifiers.”