EA should not be aiming for a passing grade when it comes to sexual harassment. The question is not “is EA better than average”, but “is EA as good as it could be”.
My intuition would be that a community of altruists that care so deeply about the suffering of all beings should be much much better than average when it comes to sexual assault/sexual harassment both in terms of prevalence and handling of incidents?
Which means that even if we find we are average, it is shocking because it suggests that there are certain aspects of this community’s culture that are negative enough to drag us back to being average from much much better?
My intuition would be that a community of altruists that care so deeply about the suffering of all beings should be much much better than average when it comes to sexual assault/sexual harassment both in terms of prevalence and handling of incidents?
Which means that even if we find we are average, it is shocking because it suggests that there are certain aspects of this community’s culture that are negative enough to drag us back to being average from much much better?