Would it be possible to combine individual stories and general statistics? If I tell you there are X number of children dying from malaria, you may want to know what it is like to die from malaria. If I show you a video of one child dying from malaria, you may want to know how many other children are in a similar situation. If individual stories do have some usefulness, then would it be a good use of money for an EA organization to make some short films about the stories of individual children dying from malaria? It could bring people into the movement the same way that undercover videos of factory farms bring people into the animal movement. If people who are already in the movement are more likely to respond positively to a different type of appeal, could we target different types of appeals to different audiences? I did a quick search on YouTube for videos about malaria, and I found way fewer videos than I know are out there about factory farming.
Would it be possible to combine individual stories and general statistics? If I tell you there are X number of children dying from malaria, you may want to know what it is like to die from malaria. If I show you a video of one child dying from malaria, you may want to know how many other children are in a similar situation. If individual stories do have some usefulness, then would it be a good use of money for an EA organization to make some short films about the stories of individual children dying from malaria? It could bring people into the movement the same way that undercover videos of factory farms bring people into the animal movement. If people who are already in the movement are more likely to respond positively to a different type of appeal, could we target different types of appeals to different audiences? I did a quick search on YouTube for videos about malaria, and I found way fewer videos than I know are out there about factory farming.