Thanks David. I agree the online vs offline idea is pretty intuitive. Arguably you can vaguely see some signs of this in the data, but not to a great extent. As the membership post shows, there’s quite a lot of overlap between online (EA Facebook) and offline (Local Group):
looking whether there are some patterns of these factors [how people report getting more involved] for more vs less involved people seems to me potentially promising
Yes, this is what the analysis in the previous comment aims to do. And yes, you are correct that controlling for time in EA is very difficult because of the very small numbers in the earlier years of EA, hence in the analysis above we just display results splitting by those joining before/after 2016.
Thanks David. I agree the online vs offline idea is pretty intuitive. Arguably you can vaguely see some signs of this in the data, but not to a great extent. As the membership post shows, there’s quite a lot of overlap between online (EA Facebook) and offline (Local Group):
Yes, this is what the analysis in the previous comment aims to do. And yes, you are correct that controlling for time in EA is very difficult because of the very small numbers in the earlier years of EA, hence in the analysis above we just display results splitting by those joining before/after 2016.