SI Staff Answers (pre and post report)

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1	SI Staff Questions (pre and post report) for key issues in history research
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4	Excepting the title of the blog post, the wording of these questions has been preserved as it was originally presented to SI staff.
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6	Blog post	Number	Question			Meaning of 0		Meaning of 5	Meaning of 10
7	How tractable is changing the course of history?	1A	To what extent can the outcomes of history be affected by the actions of key actors? [1] (i.e. how much does luck [2] matter in the overall trajectory of history?)			Such actors have no control, and everything is entirely a result of wider factors		One small group (e.g. a single animal advocacy nonprofit) could play a role which was equal to all other factors combined in determining the entire outcome of a major historical change or event (e.g. whether clean meat is widely adopted)	One small group could determine the entire outcome of a major historical change or event
8	How tractable is changing the course of history?	1B	How fragile is moral circle expansion compared to other historical social trends? [3]			The least fragile historical social trend		As fragile as other social trends	The most fragile historical social trend
9	What can the farmed animal movement learn from history?	2A	How easily can we glean significant strategic knowledge from history?			No strategic knowledge that makes makes any difference in SI’s overall strategic views		Half of the relevant details provide significant strategic knowledge	Every relevant detail provides such knowledge
10	What can the farmed animal movement learn from history?	2B	How much weight should the EAA community place on knowledge from history, relative to other research areas?			No weight at all		Equal weight to other research areas	When available, historical knowledge is more useful than all other EAA research knowledge
11	How is SI research different from existing social movement literature and relevant historical works?	3A	For the specific question of “which advocacy strategies were most effective?”, how much more useful is SI’s research than existing academic social movement literature (which includes work on a wide variety of social movement questions), per unit of resources spent on the research?			SI’s research provides virtually no help in answering this question		Equally useful	Such literature provides virtually no help in answering this question
12		3B	For teasing out historical causation, how much more useful is SI’s research than existing academic social movement literature (which includes work on a wide variety of social movement topics), per unit of resources spent on the research?			SI’s research provides virtually no help in answering this question		Equally useful	Such literature provides virtually no help on historical causation
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14	[1] Whilst we are interested in thinking about small groups of thoughtful actors, this is less "testable" in the historical record. For example, when I've looked at WWI I've just thought about the influence of governments and Serbian nationalists on the likelihood of war, even though they weren't always necessarily being thoughtful about either encouraging or preventing war.
15	[2] Here I am including both other human actors, and inanimate factors like weather, and the extent to which these might divert the trajectory of history from that which would otherwise have been secured by the “key actors”.
16	[3] Here I am including previous human-affecting events and trends, like wars, elections, policies, movements etc., but not counting economic or technological outcomes in their own right (i.e. except insofar as they affect social trends).
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20	Pre or Post	Name	1A	1B	2A	2B	3A	3B
21	Pre	Jamie	4	3	3	5	9	4
22	Pre	Jacy	4	7	3	8	9	8
23	Pre	Kelly	5	3	5	7	8	9
24	Pre	J	3.2	4.9	4.5	5	5.2	5.1
25	Post	Jamie	3	4	3	5	9	6
26	Post	Jacy	5	7	3	8	9	8
27	Post	Kelly	1	3
28	Post	J	3.6	4.95	4.1	5	5.3	5.1
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