Neil, I agree with your sentiment that declarative phrase “effective altruist” is an ideal/abstraction. No mortal can be true (100%) effective altruist. Term “effective altruist” will confuse most people. It also infers ideology “effective altruism”.
I feel that translating declarative abstract meaning into operational average-person words shall help better sustain common sense of what we want to do. Take popular key words, having altruistic flavors, such as voluntarism, charity, giving, etc., and decorate them with qualifiers that imply a degree of effectiveness relatively to an average person cognition. For example, phrases like Charity Wise, Giving It Right, Smart Givers, Giving With Wisdom, etc.
Evan, your suggestion of usability testing makes sense to me. I just don’t have enough energy or experience to undertake such work alone. Can you help in setting up a test activity/project?
Yeah, I did. I’ll send you a message to your private email address you shared with me. Sorry I didn’t respond in a timely fashion. I’ve been swamped the last few days.
Neil, I agree with your sentiment that declarative phrase “effective altruist” is an ideal/abstraction. No mortal can be true (100%) effective altruist. Term “effective altruist” will confuse most people. It also infers ideology “effective altruism”.
I feel that translating declarative abstract meaning into operational average-person words shall help better sustain common sense of what we want to do. Take popular key words, having altruistic flavors, such as voluntarism, charity, giving, etc., and decorate them with qualifiers that imply a degree of effectiveness relatively to an average person cognition. For example, phrases like Charity Wise, Giving It Right, Smart Givers, Giving With Wisdom, etc.
I don’t know how really usable you might intend those examples to be, but they could be tested out to see what if we ourselves like using them.
Evan, your suggestion of usability testing makes sense to me. I just don’t have enough energy or experience to undertake such work alone. Can you help in setting up a test activity/project?
Yeah, okay. Send me a private message about it, and we can discuss what either of us have in mind.
I sent 2 days ago a private message to your mail box at this forum. Did you receive it?
Yeah, I did. I’ll send you a message to your private email address you shared with me. Sorry I didn’t respond in a timely fashion. I’ve been swamped the last few days.