Thanks for the kind words! Our new Director of Research did all the analysis for this (I still did the methodology) and he’s quite a whiz at data analysis, so he can take all the credit for that side of things!
Good to know that it fits in well with your previous findings. I also think this supports a similar loose set of hypotheses I had going into this.
Re it being less good for issues with low levels of public support, I think what you say is broadly true, with a caveat. I think for issues with low public support, it’s not often that there is a big base of people who oppose an issue and we slowly win people other; Instead, I think it’s more like that most of the population don’t really have a view, and using radical tactics, you’re getting them to actually form a view on an issue. I think the best example for me of this is the chart below, which shows public support for BLM (the group, not the issue) post-George Floyd protests. I think Animal Rebellion does similar stuff—It will turn a bunch of people off, it will probably attract some people, but ultimately it’s getting a lot more people to actually take a stance. Obviously the balance of this is important, and something that it doesn’t feel like we have great evidence on.
Thanks for the kind words! Our new Director of Research did all the analysis for this (I still did the methodology) and he’s quite a whiz at data analysis, so he can take all the credit for that side of things!
Good to know that it fits in well with your previous findings. I also think this supports a similar loose set of hypotheses I had going into this.
Re it being less good for issues with low levels of public support, I think what you say is broadly true, with a caveat. I think for issues with low public support, it’s not often that there is a big base of people who oppose an issue and we slowly win people other; Instead, I think it’s more like that most of the population don’t really have a view, and using radical tactics, you’re getting them to actually form a view on an issue. I think the best example for me of this is the chart below, which shows public support for BLM (the group, not the issue) post-George Floyd protests. I think Animal Rebellion does similar stuff—It will turn a bunch of people off, it will probably attract some people, but ultimately it’s getting a lot more people to actually take a stance. Obviously the balance of this is important, and something that it doesn’t feel like we have great evidence on.