[platform-coop-dev-kit] redefining impact intervals

[Eric Theise]

Hi all,

Some of you may remember that I had two sets of concerns over the ecosystem
survey question:

17) VERY IMPORTANT: How many people does your project directly and
indirectly affect? Clients and the broader community.
  1-10
  11-20
  21-50
  51-100
  101-500
  501-1,000
  1,001-2,000
  2,001+
  Other

My first set of concerns dealt with categories needing to be mutually
exclusive and collectively exhaustive. There were both gaps and overlaps in
the initial intervals and we fixed those.

My second set of concerns was about scaling these intervals. Not being a
domain expert all I could do was express caution. However, having been
given access to survey data last week I can confirm that these intervals
were a poor choice and we are experiencing a "ceiling effect".

132 of 213 respondents chose "2,000+". The few that typed in a specific
value for "Other" ranged from a few thousand to tens or hundreds of
thousands (data appended). Whether or not they are credible, a few outliers
even say a million, one "billions". Whatever. No one has selected "1-10",
"11-20", or "21-50", and only two respondents chose "51-100". There are two
typed-in values in these ranges.

The intent of the heartbeat and dashboard of the system is to sum up the
midpoints of these intervals for the funders, policymakers, researchers,
and other analysts to impress them with co-op impact. All we can
responsibly say about the 62% of the respondents who chose "2,000+" is that
they impacted 2,000 people even though it looks as if it could easily be
many, many times that amount.

I am switching to these intervals in my reimplementation of the survey:
  1-49
  50-99
  101-499
  500-999
  1,000-4,999
  5,000-9,999
  10,000-49,999
  50,000-99,999
  100,000-499,999
  500,000-999,999
  1,000,000+

I believe it is essential that you resurvey the 132 respondents who
chose "2,000+" for this one "affect" question.

Let's please add this to next week's agenda, thanks.

Eric


SELECT count(ba), ba AS affected

FROM surveys_ecosystem2020

GROUP BY ba

ORDER BY count(ba) DESC;


 count |                                                            affected



-------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   121 | 2,001+

    20 | 1,001-2,000

    11 | 2,000+

     6 | 501-1,000

     5 | 100-500

     4 | 500-1000

     3 | Over 1 milllion

     3 | 0

     2 | 50-100

     2 | 100000

     2 | 101-500

     1 | 25000-30000

     1 | 18,200

     1 | Over 10 million

     1 | 8,000

     1 | We cannot say at this point, we have 101-500 people who have
engaged initially, we hope to reach many thousands once launched

     1 | 26,000

     1 | 16,000

     1 | 6,700

     1 | 14,700

     1 | 36,000

     1 | Bendigo population is 120,000

     1 | 50000

     1 | 3000

     1 | 5000

     1 | 27,900

     1 | 11,000

     1 | 500000

     1 | 16

     1 | Currently: 0, Capability: Millions

     1 | Direct effect: Millions and probably at least 1 billion people;
Indirect and cumulative effect: Billions of people (literally)

     1 | 1000-2000

     1 | +12000

     1 | Over 220 000

     1 | 25 coops with roughly 100 couriers in total reaching below 100 000
people (clients/institutions...)

     1 | 45,000

     1 | >30000

     1 | -

     1 | 20

     1 | 951.273

     1 | 4,200

     1 |

     1 | Currently: 0; Capability: Millions

(43 rows)
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