Hey Khorton, thanks for checking that. Initially I was puzzled by why I’d made this error but then I saw that “People could rate more than one area as the “top priority”. As a result the figures sum to more than 100%.
That survey design makes things a bit confusing, but the end result is that each of these votes can only be read as a vote for one of the top few priorities. — Rob
Hi,
I wrote the cause area EA Survey 2019 post for Rethink Priorities so thought I should just weigh in here on this minor point.
Fwiw, I think it’s more accurate to say 22% of respondents thought Global Poverty should be at least one of the top priorities, if not the only top priority, but when forced to only pick only one of five traditional cause areas to be the top priority, 32% chose Global Poverty.
The data shows 476 of the 2164 respondents (22%) who gave any top priority cause rating in that question selected Global Poverty and “this should be the top priority”. However, 356 of those 476 also selected another cause area as “this should be the top priority”, and 120 only selected Global Poverty for “this should be the top priority”. So 5.5% thought Global Poverty should be the ONLY top priority, and 16.5% thought Global Poverty should be one, among others, of the top priorities.
Also note that the subsequent question forced respondents to only chose one of five traditional cause areas as a top priority and there 32% (of 2023) chose Global Poverty.
Hey Khorton, thanks for checking that. Initially I was puzzled by why I’d made this error but then I saw that “People could rate more than one area as the “top priority”. As a result the figures sum to more than 100%.
That survey design makes things a bit confusing, but the end result is that each of these votes can only be read as a vote for one of the top few priorities. — Rob
Hi, I wrote the cause area EA Survey 2019 post for Rethink Priorities so thought I should just weigh in here on this minor point.
Fwiw, I think it’s more accurate to say 22% of respondents thought Global Poverty should be at least one of the top priorities, if not the only top priority, but when forced to only pick only one of five traditional cause areas to be the top priority, 32% chose Global Poverty.
The data shows 476 of the 2164 respondents (22%) who gave any top priority cause rating in that question selected Global Poverty and “this should be the top priority”. However, 356 of those 476 also selected another cause area as “this should be the top priority”, and 120 only selected Global Poverty for “this should be the top priority”. So 5.5% thought Global Poverty should be the ONLY top priority, and 16.5% thought Global Poverty should be one, among others, of the top priorities. Also note that the subsequent question forced respondents to only chose one of five traditional cause areas as a top priority and there 32% (of 2023) chose Global Poverty.