The lack of growth of the EA Forum coupled with the large growth in EA Survey respondents confuses me. The 2015 EA Survey found 350 self-reported users of the EA Forum, but unfortunately the 2014 survey did not ask about that, so there’s no longitudinal data (yet) to compare.
Perhaps a combination of i) different degrees of intensity of engagement and ii) changing methodology.
1 - The degree of high-intensity engagement (reading and writing intellectual arguments) is meant to be much harder to grow than total people who affiliate with EA.
2 - How did the Survey methodology change between years?
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The lack of growth of the EA Forum coupled with the large growth in EA Survey respondents confuses me. The 2015 EA Survey found 350 self-reported users of the EA Forum, but unfortunately the 2014 survey did not ask about that, so there’s no longitudinal data (yet) to compare.
Perhaps a combination of i) different degrees of intensity of engagement and ii) changing methodology.
1 - The degree of high-intensity engagement (reading and writing intellectual arguments) is meant to be much harder to grow than total people who affiliate with EA.
2 - How did the Survey methodology change between years?