Even if we assume that only 25% of Mental Health supporters were thinking of psychedelics, that’s still 15% of survey respondents saying that psychedelics should receive “at least significant” EA resources.
0.585 * .25 = 0.15 [edited to correct double-counting]
I don’t think you can add the percentages for “top or near top priority” and “at least significant resources”. If you look at the row for global poverty, the percentages add up to over 100% (61.7% + 87.0% = 148.7%), which means the table is double counting some people.
Looking at the bar graph above the table, it looks like “at least significant resources” includes everyone in “significant resources”, “near-top priority”, and “top priority”. For mental health it looks like “significant resources” has 37%, and “near-top priority” and “top priority” combined have 21.5% (shown as 22% in the bar graph).
So your actual calculation would just be 0.585 * .25 which is about 15%.
Even if we assume that only 25% of Mental Health supporters were thinking of psychedelics, that’s still 15% of survey respondents saying that psychedelics should receive “at least significant” EA resources.
0.585 * .25 = 0.15 [edited to correct double-counting]
Honestly I would assume less; I voted for Mental Health thinking of Strong Minds.
Ditto to both parts of this
I don’t think you can add the percentages for “top or near top priority” and “at least significant resources”. If you look at the row for global poverty, the percentages add up to over 100% (61.7% + 87.0% = 148.7%), which means the table is double counting some people.
Looking at the bar graph above the table, it looks like “at least significant resources” includes everyone in “significant resources”, “near-top priority”, and “top priority”. For mental health it looks like “significant resources” has 37%, and “near-top priority” and “top priority” combined have 21.5% (shown as 22% in the bar graph).
So your actual calculation would just be 0.585 * .25 which is about 15%.
Good point, thanks. I’ve edited my comment to correct the double-counting.