Thanks so much for doing this! I’m really excited to see the results of the survey and expect it’ll be really useful :)
Some nits:
I noticed at some points that some questions which asked about the impact of programs had a “None of the above” response, whereas others didn’t (My understanding is it’s best practice to include a “None” question for all of these? e.g. I noticed the absence of this for the “Which of these had the largest influence on your impact?” question.
I found these options confusingly ordered based on the grid multi-select (e.g. for the year when you joined EA, took me a sec to find the right option, and it feels more natural in a grid to read left to right than top to bottom) — did you consider just leaving this as a list?
I don’t think it’s common phrasing to talk about “increasing / decreasing” mental health, maybe I would have phrased it as “had a positive or negative impact on” mental health
On “Do you have any suggestions as to how EA could be improved or developed?”, I don’t have a strong sense of what’s being asked here, or what “EA” refers to in this context? Is this about the community at large, specific people within the community, is this still including “adjacent ideas”, etc.
All of the questions you had substantive comments about the wording of were external requests which we included verbatim.
Re. the order of the dates: when testing, we found some people thought this was more intuitive left to right and some top to bottom (for context, it’s not specifically designed as ‘grid’, it just happens that the columns are similar lengths to the rows). It could be put in a single column, though not without requiring people to scroll to see the full questions, or changing the style so that it doesn’t match other questions. Exactly how you see the questions will vary depending on whether you’re viewing on PC, phone or tablet though.
Thanks so much for doing this! I’m really excited to see the results of the survey and expect it’ll be really useful :)
Some nits:
I noticed at some points that some questions which asked about the impact of programs had a “None of the above” response, whereas others didn’t (My understanding is it’s best practice to include a “None” question for all of these? e.g. I noticed the absence of this for the “Which of these had the largest influence on your impact?” question.
I found these options confusingly ordered based on the grid multi-select (e.g. for the year when you joined EA, took me a sec to find the right option, and it feels more natural in a grid to read left to right than top to bottom) — did you consider just leaving this as a list?
I don’t think it’s common phrasing to talk about “increasing / decreasing” mental health, maybe I would have phrased it as “had a positive or negative impact on” mental health
On “Do you have any suggestions as to how EA could be improved or developed?”, I don’t have a strong sense of what’s being asked here, or what “EA” refers to in this context? Is this about the community at large, specific people within the community, is this still including “adjacent ideas”, etc.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
All of the questions you had substantive comments about the wording of were external requests which we included verbatim.
Re. the order of the dates: when testing, we found some people thought this was more intuitive left to right and some top to bottom (for context, it’s not specifically designed as ‘grid’, it just happens that the columns are similar lengths to the rows). It could be put in a single column, though not without requiring people to scroll to see the full questions, or changing the style so that it doesn’t match other questions. Exactly how you see the questions will vary depending on whether you’re viewing on PC, phone or tablet though.