Potentially confusing aspect of the survey: “animal rights” and “animal welfare” refer to different things within the animal activism space. In general, animal rights activism seeks to end all human exploitation of animals, while animal welfare activism seeks to make sure all animals have a high quality of life. Since PETA is a very prominent animal rights organization and not particularly associated with effective animal activism, it’s unclear to me whether you intended to specify animal rights activism in particular or whether you intended to include all animal activism but accidentally made a misleading question. If the former, I’d suggest adding “animal welfare (HSUS)” as a category; if the latter, I’d suggest making a single “animal activism” category and using an effective-animal-activism-associated charity such as the Humane League as an example.
It’s unclear to me whether “mundane societal issues” is intended to be solely political issues or to include apolitical issues such as mentoring talented students. Regardless, I’d suggest replacing the Cato Institute with a less partisan organization, to prevent non-libertarians from feeling excluded.
There is no place to clarify which of the potentially three projects we’re talking about when we say what skills are needed.
Oh weird, Google Forms clearly glitched on me. I fixed both the Cato Institute and PETA issues on earlier versions of the survey. I will go through and fix them again, thanks for pointing them out.
EDIT: I think I see what happened, I fixed it on one part of the survey but not the other. Thanks again for the bug report.
As for your last point, that’s entirely fair and I’ll have to think of a way to handle it.
Potentially confusing aspect of the survey: “animal rights” and “animal welfare” refer to different things within the animal activism space. In general, animal rights activism seeks to end all human exploitation of animals, while animal welfare activism seeks to make sure all animals have a high quality of life. Since PETA is a very prominent animal rights organization and not particularly associated with effective animal activism, it’s unclear to me whether you intended to specify animal rights activism in particular or whether you intended to include all animal activism but accidentally made a misleading question. If the former, I’d suggest adding “animal welfare (HSUS)” as a category; if the latter, I’d suggest making a single “animal activism” category and using an effective-animal-activism-associated charity such as the Humane League as an example.
It’s unclear to me whether “mundane societal issues” is intended to be solely political issues or to include apolitical issues such as mentoring talented students. Regardless, I’d suggest replacing the Cato Institute with a less partisan organization, to prevent non-libertarians from feeling excluded.
There is no place to clarify which of the potentially three projects we’re talking about when we say what skills are needed.
Oh weird, Google Forms clearly glitched on me. I fixed both the Cato Institute and PETA issues on earlier versions of the survey. I will go through and fix them again, thanks for pointing them out.
EDIT: I think I see what happened, I fixed it on one part of the survey but not the other. Thanks again for the bug report.
As for your last point, that’s entirely fair and I’ll have to think of a way to handle it.