I may be too late to the game (been away and @DavidJanku only recently alerted me to this ) but some quick thoughts:
The current version seems to have many questions that will tell you about how people either ‘consciously answer this question to themselves’ or how they want to present themselves. It may not reveal their true motivations. There’s a lot of work point in this direction.
I would try to focus more on very specific questions that permit less constructed justification and ‘lying to oneself.’
It may be very helpful to present simple and yet that ask for a hypothetical response such as “which of the following charities would you be more likely to donate to?” and “how does the following information make you feel?” (although the latter may also offering for motivated reasoning). My recent paper with Robin Bergh some of this but with real donation choices; it still would be interesting to consider hypothetical choices and responses.
I have a wiki/hub that attempts to summarize much of the evidence on Charitable giving, with a particular focus on the consideration of effectiveness.
See INNOVATIONSINFUNDRAISING.ORG. There is also an underlying database I can share (with more detail and recent updates) if you message me at daaronr AT gmail.com
I have also done a lot of work recently summarizing the evidence on “How do people respond to effectiveness information”.
E.g., pasting some text from a recent grant application:
So far, we have limited evidence on these questions, and the existing evidence is far from systematic or consistent Mixed results, e.g.,- Small et al vs Karlan, Parsons, and Reinstein et al work with Donor Voice; a Previous studies have largely relied on hypothetical and small-scale lab-based experiments(Metzger & Günther, 2015, Berman et al., 2018, Verkaik, 2016). Only a few large scale natural field experiments have been run. Karlan and Wood (2017) simultaneously varied emotional and cost-effectiveness information, with the latter presented largely qualitatively and in a particular ‘scientific’ credentials frame. Parson (2007) presented accounting information (uninformative about per-dollar effectiveness). In contrast, our field experiment project aims at large sample sizes in real donation environment, testing a set of particularly relevant and practical framings of real per-dollar impact information in the presence/absence of an emotional appeal (further measuring interaction effects, as in Bergh and Reinstein, 2019).
Hi David. Thanks for the observation and a gotcha. I will pass this information over (and also note it down for myself, it’s interesting :-) ). But I am skeptical in how much I have an influence around this. Nevertheless, I believe that the researches behind this survey will be interested as I mentioned in the post, there should be another window of possibility later on (as the study should be done periodically).
I may be too late to the game (been away and @DavidJanku only recently alerted me to this ) but some quick thoughts:
The current version seems to have many questions that will tell you about how people either ‘consciously answer this question to themselves’ or how they want to present themselves. It may not reveal their true motivations. There’s a lot of work point in this direction.
I would try to focus more on very specific questions that permit less constructed justification and ‘lying to oneself.’
It may be very helpful to present simple and yet that ask for a hypothetical response such as “which of the following charities would you be more likely to donate to?” and “how does the following information make you feel?” (although the latter may also offering for motivated reasoning). My recent paper with Robin Bergh some of this but with real donation choices; it still would be interesting to consider hypothetical choices and responses.
I have a wiki/hub that attempts to summarize much of the evidence on Charitable giving, with a particular focus on the consideration of effectiveness.
See INNOVATIONSINFUNDRAISING.ORG. There is also an underlying database I can share (with more detail and recent updates) if you message me at daaronr AT gmail.com
I have also done a lot of work recently summarizing the evidence on “How do people respond to effectiveness information”.
E.g., pasting some text from a recent grant application:
Please message me for more detail.
I just added some links to the shared google doc also
Hi David. Thanks for the observation and a gotcha. I will pass this information over (and also note it down for myself, it’s interesting :-) ). But I am skeptical in how much I have an influence around this. Nevertheless, I believe that the researches behind this survey will be interested as I mentioned in the post, there should be another window of possibility later on (as the study should be done periodically).