My gut reaction is that most of the people who have stuck around are “E first”, but I think there’s probably a higher base rate of those amongst early adopters, so hard to say.
It seems like we could gather some data on this, though. It’s a vague question, but I suspect most people would be able to answer some variant of “Were you E first or A first? E/A/Other”. Then we could see if that had any relationship to tenure in the community, or anything else. Perhaps an item for the next Effective Altruism survey?
Unfortunately since the respondents would be members of the EA community, it would be hard to control that data for cultural fit in order to get at how robustly EA people from each demographic are. People have stuck around in the community for reasons other than how EA they are or can be, as I hope I’ve shed some light on.
My gut reaction is that most of the people who have stuck around are “E first”, but I think there’s probably a higher base rate of those amongst early adopters, so hard to say.
It seems like we could gather some data on this, though. It’s a vague question, but I suspect most people would be able to answer some variant of “Were you E first or A first? E/A/Other”. Then we could see if that had any relationship to tenure in the community, or anything else. Perhaps an item for the next Effective Altruism survey?
Unfortunately since the respondents would be members of the EA community, it would be hard to control that data for cultural fit in order to get at how robustly EA people from each demographic are. People have stuck around in the community for reasons other than how EA they are or can be, as I hope I’ve shed some light on.