What you’re suggesting—some sort of census and then restricting access to the poll—would be rather expensive and time-consuming. Is there any evidence for someone wanting to fund what I expect would be a six-figure endeavor?
Why do you think an anonymous survey for physical gatherings and meeting attendants (real humans taking part in physical EA activities ) with paper sheets would be so expensive? You go to a gathering, ask people their names (ideally ask for a ID), write them in a list, then give them envelopes and the survey, and collect the written answers.
An additional issue is than the “at risk” population is not all EAs and EA adjacents, but only those physically involved.
You’d have to distribute at a lot of events to get a representative sample, and then would need the completed forms mailed to a trusted third party organization (having site-level distribution would risk deidentification, and people need privacy to complete surveys on particular topics). Unless you’re limiting yourself to multiple-choice, someone then needs to transcribe all the written responses before running the scantron sheets through.
There are reasons that mail-in surveys aren’t popular nowadays.
Well, it is hard to believe that a random chosen person would try to do “deidentification”. What I have described is routinely done for calification of university professors at end course in countless universities!
Do those surveys ask people if they are survivors of sexual assault? That is extremely sensitive information that requires a very high level of assurance that one’s identity cannot be attached to one’s responses.
In my view you underestimate the degree of intentionality and coordination of the offensive against EA.
What you’re suggesting—some sort of census and then restricting access to the poll—would be rather expensive and time-consuming. Is there any evidence for someone wanting to fund what I expect would be a six-figure endeavor?
Why do you think an anonymous survey for physical gatherings and meeting attendants (real humans taking part in physical EA activities ) with paper sheets would be so expensive? You go to a gathering, ask people their names (ideally ask for a ID), write them in a list, then give them envelopes and the survey, and collect the written answers.
An additional issue is than the “at risk” population is not all EAs and EA adjacents, but only those physically involved.
You’d have to distribute at a lot of events to get a representative sample, and then would need the completed forms mailed to a trusted third party organization (having site-level distribution would risk deidentification, and people need privacy to complete surveys on particular topics). Unless you’re limiting yourself to multiple-choice, someone then needs to transcribe all the written responses before running the scantron sheets through.
There are reasons that mail-in surveys aren’t popular nowadays.
Well, it is hard to believe that a random chosen person would try to do “deidentification”. What I have described is routinely done for calification of university professors at end course in countless universities!
Do those surveys ask people if they are survivors of sexual assault? That is extremely sensitive information that requires a very high level of assurance that one’s identity cannot be attached to one’s responses.