The full process is described in our earlier post, and included a variety of other checks as well.
But, in brief, the “stringent” and “permissive” criteria refer to respondents’ open comment explanations of what they understand “effective altruism” to means, and whether they either displayed clear familiarity with effective altruism, such that it would be very unlikely someone would give that response if they were not genuinely familiar with effective altruism (e.g. by referring to using evidence and reason to maximise the amount of good done with your donations or career; or referring to specific EA figures, books, orgs, events etc.), or whether it was merely probable based on their comment that they had heard of effective altruism (e.g. because the responses were more vague or less specific).
The full process is described in our earlier post, and included a variety of other checks as well.
But, in brief, the “stringent” and “permissive” criteria refer to respondents’ open comment explanations of what they understand “effective altruism” to means, and whether they either displayed clear familiarity with effective altruism, such that it would be very unlikely someone would give that response if they were not genuinely familiar with effective altruism (e.g. by referring to using evidence and reason to maximise the amount of good done with your donations or career; or referring to specific EA figures, books, orgs, events etc.), or whether it was merely probable based on their comment that they had heard of effective altruism (e.g. because the responses were more vague or less specific).