It’s not too late, if I do so decide :). In other words, it’s always possible to spend later for larger samples, if that actually turns out to be something I want to do.
Right now, I think that:
It’ll be pretty expensive: I’d probably want to spend using several different survey tools, since each has its strengths and weaknesses (so SurveyMonkey, Google Surveys, maybe Survata and Mechanical Turk as well). Then with each I’d need 1000+ responses to be able to regress against all variables and variable pairs. The costs do add up quickly to over a thousand dollars.
I don’t currently have that much uncertainty: It might show that age and income actually do explain a little more of the variation than it seems right now (and that would be consistent with the Pew research). But I feel that we already have enough data to see that it doesn’t have anywhere near the effect that SSC membership has.
It’s not too late, if I do so decide :). In other words, it’s always possible to spend later for larger samples, if that actually turns out to be something I want to do.
Right now, I think that:
It’ll be pretty expensive: I’d probably want to spend using several different survey tools, since each has its strengths and weaknesses (so SurveyMonkey, Google Surveys, maybe Survata and Mechanical Turk as well). Then with each I’d need 1000+ responses to be able to regress against all variables and variable pairs. The costs do add up quickly to over a thousand dollars.
I don’t currently have that much uncertainty: It might show that age and income actually do explain a little more of the variation than it seems right now (and that would be consistent with the Pew research). But I feel that we already have enough data to see that it doesn’t have anywhere near the effect that SSC membership has.
I’m open to arguments to convince me otherwise.