Thanks for this Jamie, this pushes in the direction that I was gesturing towards in my last comment.
I personally doubt that most people who have access to good audiences for experiments are also going to have the ability or time to run/analyse experiments or to write up the findings and properly disseminate them.
I’d therefore like to see EA start to foster more collaboration between engaged ‘researchers’ like David Reinstein who have considerable experience of how to run/analyse/disseminate research/experiments and engaged ‘practitioners’ like yourself who have access to a large pool of potential participants and a clear use for the research findings.
I am therefore quite excited to see work/initiatives like your experiment and the recent EA marketing team. These are steps in the right direction. In time these might converge into something good enough to fund and scale. This service could then produce rigorous insights that could be confidently disseminated and implemented elsewhere.
As an idea for the next steps in that direction, please see some of the discussion here and in the reply. For instance, I wonder if there is potential for you (or another organisation) to run a small marketing experiment on your career program in collaboration with the EA market testing team?
This could be methodologically informed/supervised by David’s team and theoretically informed by research/expert intuition etc. When done it could be written it up as a case study/template for similar future work.
Of course, you/they might not have the capacity to do it which is totally fine. I love to suggest work for other people to do as you have probably noticed :)
We’re actually planning to do some online ads around the re-launch of the course, and literally just received our 501(c)(3) status, so will have some Google Ad Grant money available soon. But I assume this is all too short notice to be put into effect before the launch of the course next week :P
Something to bear in mind for later cohorts though, perhaps!
Thanks for this Jamie, this pushes in the direction that I was gesturing towards in my last comment.
I personally doubt that most people who have access to good audiences for experiments are also going to have the ability or time to run/analyse experiments or to write up the findings and properly disseminate them.
I’d therefore like to see EA start to foster more collaboration between engaged ‘researchers’ like David Reinstein who have considerable experience of how to run/analyse/disseminate research/experiments and engaged ‘practitioners’ like yourself who have access to a large pool of potential participants and a clear use for the research findings.
I am therefore quite excited to see work/initiatives like your experiment and the recent EA marketing team. These are steps in the right direction. In time these might converge into something good enough to fund and scale. This service could then produce rigorous insights that could be confidently disseminated and implemented elsewhere.
As an idea for the next steps in that direction, please see some of the discussion here and in the reply. For instance, I wonder if there is potential for you (or another organisation) to run a small marketing experiment on your career program in collaboration with the EA market testing team?
This could be methodologically informed/supervised by David’s team and theoretically informed by research/expert intuition etc. When done it could be written it up as a case study/template for similar future work.
Of course, you/they might not have the capacity to do it which is totally fine. I love to suggest work for other people to do as you have probably noticed :)
Thanks Peter!
We’re actually planning to do some online ads around the re-launch of the course, and literally just received our 501(c)(3) status, so will have some Google Ad Grant money available soon. But I assume this is all too short notice to be put into effect before the launch of the course next week :P
Something to bear in mind for later cohorts though, perhaps!