Another thing I’d be interested in seeing would be the percentage changes in support for causes year-on-year as that would indicate what the internal dynamics of the movement are. I’m (at least) partly motivated to see this because mental health, which I’ve written quite a lot on, may be the smallest top priority cause, but this is also the first time it’s snuck into the list.
I think you can get a very rough sense of possible changes by comparing the results from different years (as in the first two graphs in the post), but given the difficulties in interpreting these differences I would be wary of presenting these as % changes. Aside from possible differences in the sample across different years, changing categories for causes would also obviously distort things (we start with a fairly strong presumption against changing categories for this reason, but in some cases, the development of Mental Health as a field being one, it’s unavoidable).
Another thing I’d be interested in seeing would be the percentage changes in support for causes year-on-year as that would indicate what the internal dynamics of the movement are. I’m (at least) partly motivated to see this because mental health, which I’ve written quite a lot on, may be the smallest top priority cause, but this is also the first time it’s snuck into the list.
I think you can get a very rough sense of possible changes by comparing the results from different years (as in the first two graphs in the post), but given the difficulties in interpreting these differences I would be wary of presenting these as % changes. Aside from possible differences in the sample across different years, changing categories for causes would also obviously distort things (we start with a fairly strong presumption against changing categories for this reason, but in some cases, the development of Mental Health as a field being one, it’s unavoidable).
Roger. Points taken.
You might also like seeing this report from last year on how cause preferences have changed.