I assume the list of questions youâve shared here represents questions you could ask, not questions you plan to ask. In your shoes, Iâd try to keep this survey to ~10 total questions unless you can offer people some incentive to finish it.
Maybe the best minimal version of the survey is meant to determine whether people not involved in EA (a good portion of your expected audience, it sounds like) actually think of what they do as âcause area switchingâ at all. Iâd guess that very few people outside of EA think of their giving in those terms, and that most of what looks like âswitchingâ is actually just people supporting whatever charity seems appealing to them at the moment, even if itâs not the previous âmost appealing charityâ.
(e.g. if someone says they used to support Oxfam and now they support the ACLU, I think that will almost always be about the ACLUâs work seeming generically important, vs. Oxfamâs work seeming less important or the donor running an actual comparison.)
Given your target audience, pruning the survey to only include popular cause areas in EA seems like a bad idea. I havenât thought about this much, but instinctively, Iâd allow people to define their own areas, or ask them to report which charities theyâve supported and handle the categorization yourself.
I assume the list of questions youâve shared here represents questions you could ask, not questions you plan to ask. In your shoes, Iâd try to keep this survey to ~10 total questions unless you can offer people some incentive to finish it.
Maybe the best minimal version of the survey is meant to determine whether people not involved in EA (a good portion of your expected audience, it sounds like) actually think of what they do as âcause area switchingâ at all. Iâd guess that very few people outside of EA think of their giving in those terms, and that most of what looks like âswitchingâ is actually just people supporting whatever charity seems appealing to them at the moment, even if itâs not the previous âmost appealing charityâ.
(e.g. if someone says they used to support Oxfam and now they support the ACLU, I think that will almost always be about the ACLUâs work seeming generically important, vs. Oxfamâs work seeming less important or the donor running an actual comparison.)
Given your target audience, pruning the survey to only include popular cause areas in EA seems like a bad idea. I havenât thought about this much, but instinctively, Iâd allow people to define their own areas, or ask them to report which charities theyâve supported and handle the categorization yourself.