This points out a limitation of my statistics above. All it shows is that effective altruists don’t differ from other rationalists in levels of mental illness. It’s possible and indeed likely that both effective altruists and rationalists differ from the general population in all kinds of ways. It’s even possible that self-hate and scrupulosity drive people into the rationality movement in general, although I can’t imagine why that would be. It’s just that they don’t seem to have any extra power to make people effective altruists once they’re there.
It would surprise me if the results don’t hold any more, but it might be worth checking
I linked to a similar comparison: Efffective Altruists, not as mentally ill as you think, with the results you hypothesized:
It would surprise me if the results don’t hold any more, but it might be worth checking