One other metric that you could look at is proportion of people contacted who donate. This would be evidence of some kind of weirdness effect, but at the end of the day, $/person contacted is closer to what we care about. Still, I think it’s interesting to look at.
My proportion is 10/42=24%, Giles’ is 26/63=41%, and Peter’s is >33/149=22%. I don’t know that I would draw any conclusions from this, except that it makes the very similar $/person contacted numbers look much more coincidental.
My proportion is 10/42=24%, Giles’ is 26/63=41%, and Peter’s is >33/149=22%. I don’t know that I would draw any conclusions from this, except that it makes the very similar $/person contacted numbers look much more coincidental.
Well Giles clearly did better than us… that’s a big outlier we should consider. But it’s also very sparse data!
And one reason why mine was low was that I did intentionally reach out to pretty much everyone I could, even if I hadn’t talked to them in 4+ years. Naturally, the people who I hadn’t reached out to in 4+ years didn’t respond / donate at the same frequency as my closer friends. …This year when I relaunch the fundraiser I’ll keep it to people I know better.
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33/149=22%
Just for the technicality, I relooked and it was 35⁄146 = 24%. The same as you! Cool coincidence...
One other metric that you could look at is proportion of people contacted who donate. This would be evidence of some kind of weirdness effect, but at the end of the day, $/person contacted is closer to what we care about. Still, I think it’s interesting to look at.
My proportion is 10/42=24%, Giles’ is 26/63=41%, and Peter’s is >33/149=22%. I don’t know that I would draw any conclusions from this, except that it makes the very similar $/person contacted numbers look much more coincidental.
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Well Giles clearly did better than us… that’s a big outlier we should consider. But it’s also very sparse data!
And one reason why mine was low was that I did intentionally reach out to pretty much everyone I could, even if I hadn’t talked to them in 4+ years. Naturally, the people who I hadn’t reached out to in 4+ years didn’t respond / donate at the same frequency as my closer friends. …This year when I relaunch the fundraiser I’ll keep it to people I know better.
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Just for the technicality, I relooked and it was 35⁄146 = 24%. The same as you! Cool coincidence...