Understanding public awareness and opinion of key EA values, the EA movement, and/or key organisations Movement building & conceptual dissemination
What the public thinks of EA is quite relevant to many key outcomes, including movement building. We would therefore like to fund work to understand public trends on topics such as key values (e.g., longtermism, cosmopolitanism or resource maximisation), attitudes towards activist movement ‘brands’ (e.g., EA, vegan activism, extinction rebellion), and awareness and attitude towards key EA organisations (e.g., 80,000 hours), and of key EA behavioural outcomes (e.g., participation in supporting effective charities) etc.
Samantha Kassirer has also made a very good point in a slack discussion about using machine learning techniques and social media (like this paper) to find/study proto-EAs, rather than self report methods.
Understanding public awareness and opinion of key EA values, the EA movement, and/or key organisations
Movement building & conceptual dissemination
What the public thinks of EA is quite relevant to many key outcomes, including movement building. We would therefore like to fund work to understand public trends on topics such as key values (e.g., longtermism, cosmopolitanism or resource maximisation), attitudes towards activist movement ‘brands’ (e.g., EA, vegan activism, extinction rebellion), and awareness and attitude towards key EA organisations (e.g., 80,000 hours), and of key EA behavioural outcomes (e.g., participation in supporting effective charities) etc.
See also recent work from Lucius Caviola which could be applied here
Samantha Kassirer has also made a very good point in a slack discussion about using machine learning techniques and social media (like this paper) to find/study proto-EAs, rather than self report methods.