I am trying to figure out how Christians can be reached in terms of eval, especially because EA messaging really isn’t landing too well in my conversations with Christians.
This sounds like a question that might benefit from testing how Christians (though, of course, this is a heterogeneous group) respond to different messages about charity or about evaluation specifically.
I would also add that I think that a lot of what is distinctive about EA is not to do with charity evaluation specifically, but to do with wanting to maximize impartially. Many, many groups want to know whether their charities of interest are pursuing their (narrow) goals effectively. Many fewer want to know whether their favoured narrow goals (e.g. help the whales, help some specific village) is impartially helping (considered across all domains) to the greatest extent possible.
I’m very interested to learn more about testing. This would be especially important when I am at the stage of reaching churches and Christian businesses to offer auditing based on charity evaluations. First I need to develop a framework for evals.
This is a helpful insight about effectiveness vs. cause prioritisation. Especially in Christian circles (anecdotally) there’s a high amount of resistance to drop an existing effort for a more important one.
This sounds like a question that might benefit from testing how Christians (though, of course, this is a heterogeneous group) respond to different messages about charity or about evaluation specifically.
I would also add that I think that a lot of what is distinctive about EA is not to do with charity evaluation specifically, but to do with wanting to maximize impartially. Many, many groups want to know whether their charities of interest are pursuing their (narrow) goals effectively. Many fewer want to know whether their favoured narrow goals (e.g. help the whales, help some specific village) is impartially helping (considered across all domains) to the greatest extent possible.
I’m very interested to learn more about testing. This would be especially important when I am at the stage of reaching churches and Christian businesses to offer auditing based on charity evaluations. First I need to develop a framework for evals.
This is a helpful insight about effectiveness vs. cause prioritisation. Especially in Christian circles (anecdotally) there’s a high amount of resistance to drop an existing effort for a more important one.