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What is your current personal COVID risk tolerance?

Date: September 30, 2021
Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff

On September 30, 2021 we asked 1,153 registered users (734 students, 146 faculty, 273 staff):

What is your current personal COVID risk tolerance? https://go.wm.edu/cSQBsX 
1 complete lockdown
2 limited circle
3 inner circle
4 widening circle
5 easy-going

This question referred W&M&You users to the “Know Your Number” framework developed by W&M Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Health Sciences Carrie Dolan to help individuals assess and communicate their personal levels risk tolerance.

 Know Your Number

The framework is an important tool for the W&M community as we live, learn and work together; our poll results provide a snapshot of user perceptions and comfort levels.

5 column table reporting results of September 30, 2021 text poll
All Users Students Faculty Staff
504 Total Responses (44% response Rate) 305 Student Responses (42% response rate) 71 Faculty Responses (49% response rate) 128 Staff Responses (47% response rate)
1: Complete Lockdown 2.0% *less than 10 responses *less than 10 responses *less than 10 responses
2: Limited Circle 11.7% 7.2% 22.5% 16.4%
3: Inner Circle 28.6% 23.9% 33.8% 36.7%
4: Widening Circle 31.9% 35.1% 25.4% 28.1%
5: Easy-Going 25.8% 32.1% 14.1% 17.2%

 All users COVID risk tolerance: complete lockdown 2.0%, limited circle 11.7%, inner circle 28.6%, widening circle 31.9%, easy going 25.8%

Students users COVID risk tolerance: complete lockdown less than 10 responses, limited circle 7.2%, inner circle 23.9%, widening circle 35.1%, easy going 32.1%

Faculty users COVID risk tolerance: complete lockdown less than 10 responses, limited circle 22.5%, inner circle 33.8%, widening circle 25.4%, easy going 14.1%

Staff users COVID risk tolerance: complete lockdown less than 10 responses, limited circle 16.4%, inner circle 36.7%, widening circle 28.1%, easy going 17.2%