Was this intended as a response to my comment? I didn’t bring up the $70k figure or the $200k figure. I did take up one part of your argument (the ‘minimum standards’ part) and try to explain why I don’t think using a $2k - $5k minimum as equivalent to the median Indian actually makes sense.
Advantage of the “bailey”: makes people feel extremely guilty and more likely to donate money or sign the pledge.
FWIW I doubt this is actually true. I have generally strongly preferred to understate people’s relative income rather than overstate it when ‘selling’ the pledge, because it shrinks the inferential distance.
Was this intended as a response to my comment? I didn’t bring up the $70k figure or the $200k figure. I did take up one part of your argument (the ‘minimum standards’ part) and try to explain why I don’t think using a $2k - $5k minimum as equivalent to the median Indian actually makes sense.
FWIW I doubt this is actually true. I have generally strongly preferred to understate people’s relative income rather than overstate it when ‘selling’ the pledge, because it shrinks the inferential distance.
that may be true, but they are figures that have been brought up
Maybe. But the promotional materials certainly seem to frame it that way.