My impression from my outreach to all ages is that founders effects are pretty significant (including who we network with, and how we usually communicate in a way that people like ourselves would find appealing) - I’ve found a wide variety of people find the basic ideas appealing.
Also the capability to get fully involved is pretty biased towards young people with few commitments and a lot of choice over what career path they take.
But of course that doesn’t rule out a decent skew in who is likely to become deeply interested—I do think a skew is very likely at least for the more “weird” EA ideas.
One thing to note about the the Kagan/Fitz study, is that I believe it used a fairly mild specification of “Interest in Effective Giving” along the lines of whether they support charities overseas rather than in the US, rather than a more out-there specifications including, I dunno, worrying about insect sentience, or what they think of the potential value of interplanetary colonisation.
My impression from my outreach to all ages is that founders effects are pretty significant (including who we network with, and how we usually communicate in a way that people like ourselves would find appealing) - I’ve found a wide variety of people find the basic ideas appealing.
Also the capability to get fully involved is pretty biased towards young people with few commitments and a lot of choice over what career path they take.
But of course that doesn’t rule out a decent skew in who is likely to become deeply interested—I do think a skew is very likely at least for the more “weird” EA ideas.
One thing to note about the the Kagan/Fitz study, is that I believe it used a fairly mild specification of “Interest in Effective Giving” along the lines of whether they support charities overseas rather than in the US, rather than a more out-there specifications including, I dunno, worrying about insect sentience, or what they think of the potential value of interplanetary colonisation.