Thank you so much, Jason Radford, for sharing your analysis!

Lennart Guldbrandsson said:

I know I was surprised to read that we would be better off trying to
> recruit new editors than to focus on retention (very simplified).


​
I noticed that too and found it very surprising.
Jason, I read that section of your blog post carefully. This was confusing
to me:

*Existing Editor Retention*:  Currently, about 75% of editors retire every
> year or about 2.1% per month.  In this simulation, we ask what happens if
> we were to reduce the retirement rate of existing female editors to 80%,
> 90%, or 100% while maintaining the existing retirement rate for male
> editors at 75%. ​


​The reason it is confusing is because the accompanying
​x-y
​
chart shows​ three time series, labelled 80% retention, 90% retention and
100% respectively, see below.  Do you mean to say, "increase the retention
rate" to 80%, 90% or 100% instead of "reduce the retirement rate"?  80%,
90% and 100% retirement rates aren't an improvement.
​​
Could you humor me, and confirm that this was just a wording error, and not
associated with anything in the underlying analysis?


Thank you,

​~FeralOink (Ellie Kesselman)​
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