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2023 Survey Results
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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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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.