Ah sorry Bernadette I misunderstood your first question!
I think ‘pin down an explanation’ was probably too strong on my part, because I definitely don’t think it’d be conclusive and I do hope that we have some more qualitative research into this.
We do have professionals working on the survey this year (is that what you meant by professional involvement?) and I’ve sent your comment to them. They’re far better placed to analyze this than me!
Thanks Georgie—I see where we were misunderstanding each other!
That’s great—research like this is quite hard to get right, and I think it’s an excellent plan to have people with experience and knowledge about the design and execution as well as analysis involved. (My background is medical research as well as clinical medicine, and a depressing amount of research—including randomised clinical trials—is never able to answer the important question because of fundamental design choices. Unfortunately knowing this fact isn’t enough to avoid the pitfalls. It’s great that EA is interested in data, but it’s vital we generate and analyse good data well.)
Ah sorry Bernadette I misunderstood your first question!
I think ‘pin down an explanation’ was probably too strong on my part, because I definitely don’t think it’d be conclusive and I do hope that we have some more qualitative research into this.
We do have professionals working on the survey this year (is that what you meant by professional involvement?) and I’ve sent your comment to them. They’re far better placed to analyze this than me!
Thanks Georgie—I see where we were misunderstanding each other! That’s great—research like this is quite hard to get right, and I think it’s an excellent plan to have people with experience and knowledge about the design and execution as well as analysis involved. (My background is medical research as well as clinical medicine, and a depressing amount of research—including randomised clinical trials—is never able to answer the important question because of fundamental design choices. Unfortunately knowing this fact isn’t enough to avoid the pitfalls. It’s great that EA is interested in data, but it’s vital we generate and analyse good data well.)