41 out of ~1800 seems like an extremely low response rate – one would usually expect ~10% response rate, from what I’ve heard. Combining that with the singular female respondent, it seems to me that this survey is not particularly representative of their “STEM community”.
Agree it doesn’t represent “the STEM community”. As in my reply to Jessica’s longer comment, I agree there isn’t really such a thing as “the STEM community”, and if I were to write the post now I would want to better reflect the fact that this was asked to the Foresight community, in which most participants are working in one of our technical fields: neurotech, space tech, nanotech, biotech or computation. In the survey I ask if people identify themselves as STEM professionals, a question to which most answered yes (85% of respondents in this v. small survey).
Earlier in the post - ‘We also sent out a survey to the Foresight community, which generated 41 responses from participants in our technical groups’
41 out of ~1800 seems like an extremely low response rate – one would usually expect ~10% response rate, from what I’ve heard. Combining that with the singular female respondent, it seems to me that this survey is not particularly representative of their “STEM community”.
Agree it doesn’t represent “the STEM community”. As in my reply to Jessica’s longer comment, I agree there isn’t really such a thing as “the STEM community”, and if I were to write the post now I would want to better reflect the fact that this was asked to the Foresight community, in which most participants are working in one of our technical fields: neurotech, space tech, nanotech, biotech or computation. In the survey I ask if people identify themselves as STEM professionals, a question to which most answered yes (85% of respondents in this v. small survey).