We didn’t attempt to estimate the current distribution of resources before sending out the survey.
I talk about the limitations of the prioritization data in my reply to another comment here. In short: I don’t think the averages are too meaningful, but we wanted to share the data we had collected; the data is also a useful “sanity check” on some commonplace beliefs about EA (e.g. testing whether leaders really care about longtermism to the exclusion of all else).
We didn’t attempt to estimate the current distribution of resources before sending out the survey.
I talk about the limitations of the prioritization data in my reply to another comment here. In short: I don’t think the averages are too meaningful, but we wanted to share the data we had collected; the data is also a useful “sanity check” on some commonplace beliefs about EA (e.g. testing whether leaders really care about longtermism to the exclusion of all else).