Hi Arthur—just to be clear I wouldn’t call any part of your post ‘lazy’!
Certainly a university group wouldn’t be actively speaking to every person on campus. We may just need to be very precise about what we mean, and perhaps even a single dimension of active vs. passive might not cut it. For example I’d say that flyering or mailing lists are more active forms of outreach/exposure than the type of exposure I’m imagining often happens in the general population (like just seeing a news article that mentions EA, possibly disparagingly), and they also offer a route to participation for those interested. Some other dimensions would likely be whether the context of the exposure presents EA as positive or negative, and whether it is coming from the EA community or simply something about EA.
We don’t have a direct assessment of ‘uptake rates’ although maybe, at least for the US, we could look at making something that at least sheds some light on it (e.g., looking at % hearing of EA in US adult demographics, vs. US respondent demographic % in the EA survey—though I think you are right that the EA survey definitely does not capture everyone and we don’t strictly know the composition of the ‘EA community’, unfortunately, which may limit the value of doing this). Of possible interest is that we observed in the most recent Pulse results that ‘elite’ universities in the US (~top 20 ranked) had higher awareness of EA than other universities. David may have more insight into other findings/data from the EA survey that would be of relevance in terms of outreach/exposure types.
Hi Arthur—just to be clear I wouldn’t call any part of your post ‘lazy’!
Certainly a university group wouldn’t be actively speaking to every person on campus. We may just need to be very precise about what we mean, and perhaps even a single dimension of active vs. passive might not cut it. For example I’d say that flyering or mailing lists are more active forms of outreach/exposure than the type of exposure I’m imagining often happens in the general population (like just seeing a news article that mentions EA, possibly disparagingly), and they also offer a route to participation for those interested. Some other dimensions would likely be whether the context of the exposure presents EA as positive or negative, and whether it is coming from the EA community or simply something about EA.
We don’t have a direct assessment of ‘uptake rates’ although maybe, at least for the US, we could look at making something that at least sheds some light on it (e.g., looking at % hearing of EA in US adult demographics, vs. US respondent demographic % in the EA survey—though I think you are right that the EA survey definitely does not capture everyone and we don’t strictly know the composition of the ‘EA community’, unfortunately, which may limit the value of doing this). Of possible interest is that we observed in the most recent Pulse results that ‘elite’ universities in the US (~top 20 ranked) had higher awareness of EA than other universities. David may have more insight into other findings/data from the EA survey that would be of relevance in terms of outreach/exposure types.