Ah, yes. In the case of something like “should I be earning to give” that is a very different situation.
There’s two uses of counterfactual here:
Is the total impact triggered by donor A whose donation is being matched by donor B counterfactual once you take into account what donor B would have done otherwise?
Were the actions of donor B counterfactually impacted by donor A (i.e. they would have given somewhere else but that might have been similarly impactful, or less impactful).
In the case of #2 it is not misleading to donor A to say that their donation was matched IMHO. But it isn’t the full story for impact.
Ah, yes. In the case of something like “should I be earning to give” that is a very different situation.
There’s two uses of counterfactual here:
Is the total impact triggered by donor A whose donation is being matched by donor B counterfactual once you take into account what donor B would have done otherwise?
Were the actions of donor B counterfactually impacted by donor A (i.e. they would have given somewhere else but that might have been similarly impactful, or less impactful).
In the case of #2 it is not misleading to donor A to say that their donation was matched IMHO. But it isn’t the full story for impact.