Alternative post title: tell me again what data sharing is for?
A great blog post on an important topic. A recommended read for all researchers irrespective of their seniority/career stage.
Sample size and profile of the respondents
We got 280 responses (thanks everyone who responded!). Not a random sample from any well-defined population obviously, not even “the population of readers of Dynamic Ecology.” But still, it’s a larger and probably more representative sample of ecologists than you could get just by reading social media or asking your friends’ opinions, so it seems worth talking about.
This blog has lost grad student readership over the years, so the respondents skewed more heavily senior than respondents to our polls used to do. Respondents were 41% faculty, 28% postdocs, and 17% grad students. Also 8.5% non-academic professional ecologists, and 5% other.