Reading this made me want to revoke my GWWC pledge (or at least cancel my account). I’ve been a pledger since 2018, and I will continue donating at least 10% of my income to the charities I find most effective and register it on a spreasheet. I just don’t think it is appropriate that GWWC’s operations take more credit than it’s due for whatever good comes from this, and I would like to be sure they are not using my data—as I doubt that donation records go through rigorous reconciliation. I’d probably already have done it if GWWC webpage allowed it—at least I can find no “delete my account button”.
Hi Ramiro, thanks for sharing your concerns. In my response to Vasco’s comment, I explain why I don’t think our communications around the number of people who have signed the pledge is misleading. As for whether we take more credit than is due for pledge donations, I want to flag two important ways we try to ensure we aren’t overestimating our impact (among others):
We do not take credit for donations not recorded on the platform unless we have evidence from our surveys that additional pledge donations occurred (see our recording coefficient).
We only take credit for pledge donations that our survey of pledgers indicates we are causally responsible for (see our counterfactuality coefficient). In this impact evaluation, we estimated that we caused 33% of pledge donations.
If this is still your preference, you can resign from your pledge using this form. I hope I have understood your concerns, but please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
Would you still be concerned if GWWC just reported the total recorded donations in $, and the number of pledges being fulfilled based on recorded donations? I agree the way they are reporting the number of pledgers should be updated, and I had expressed my concerns about this 14 months ago (I have added the email I sent them then to my previous comment). However, I do not think GWWC is taking undue credit in their cost-effectiveness analyses.
Reading this made me want to revoke my GWWC pledge (or at least cancel my account). I’ve been a pledger since 2018, and I will continue donating at least 10% of my income to the charities I find most effective and register it on a spreasheet. I just don’t think it is appropriate that GWWC’s operations take more credit than it’s due for whatever good comes from this, and I would like to be sure they are not using my data—as I doubt that donation records go through rigorous reconciliation. I’d probably already have done it if GWWC webpage allowed it—at least I can find no “delete my account button”.
Hi Ramiro, thanks for sharing your concerns. In my response to Vasco’s comment, I explain why I don’t think our communications around the number of people who have signed the pledge is misleading. As for whether we take more credit than is due for pledge donations, I want to flag two important ways we try to ensure we aren’t overestimating our impact (among others):
We do not take credit for donations not recorded on the platform unless we have evidence from our surveys that additional pledge donations occurred (see our recording coefficient).
We only take credit for pledge donations that our survey of pledgers indicates we are causally responsible for (see our counterfactuality coefficient). In this impact evaluation, we estimated that we caused 33% of pledge donations.
If this is still your preference, you can resign from your pledge using this form. I hope I have understood your concerns, but please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
Hi Ramiro,
Would you still be concerned if GWWC just reported the total recorded donations in $, and the number of pledges being fulfilled based on recorded donations? I agree the way they are reporting the number of pledgers should be updated, and I had expressed my concerns about this 14 months ago (I have added the email I sent them then to my previous comment). However, I do not think GWWC is taking undue credit in their cost-effectiveness analyses.