LessWrong Curated Podcast

2023 Survey Results

February 19, 2024
LessWrong Curated Podcast
2023 Survey Results
Show Notes
The Data

0. Population

There were 558 responses over 32 days. The spacing and timing of the responses had hills and valleys because of an experiment I was performing where I'd get the survey advertised in a different place, then watch how many new responses happened in the day or two after that.

Previous surveys have been run over the last decade or so.

2009: 166
2011: 1090
2012: 1195
2013: 1636
2014: 1503
2016: 3083
2017: "About 300"
2020: 61
2022: 186
2023: 558

Last year when I got a hundred and eighty six responses, I said that the cheerfully optimistic interpretation was "cool! I got about as many as Scott did on his first try!" This time I got around half of what Scott did on his second try. A thousand responses feels pretty firmly achievable.

This is also the tenth such [...]



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First published:
February 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WRaq4SzxhunLoFKCs/2023-survey-results

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