I think that this would be amenable to a randomised controlled trial. (Whether by you or someone else.) This would address some of the concerns from the methodology you used here. E.g. how much would people donate without receiving the book? How much support would they express for EA?
You could send 50% of people who asked for it a book that wasn’t actually focused on EA. E.g. a book about productivity or something else, where you could frame it in a way that it wouldn’t be misleading/disappointing to receive this book rather than DGB.
Or you could put people on a wait list control group, where they still get sent DGB, it just comes ~3 months later, and all participants (whether they’ve received the book or not yet) fill out a second survey ~3 months after they first request it.
I’m going to be writing some forum posts soon about the possibilities for this sort of experiment in EA movement building, following on from two such experiments we have run at Animal Advocacy Careers. A lot of the methodology could be similar!
I think that this would be amenable to a randomised controlled trial. (Whether by you or someone else.) This would address some of the concerns from the methodology you used here. E.g. how much would people donate without receiving the book? How much support would they express for EA?
You could send 50% of people who asked for it a book that wasn’t actually focused on EA. E.g. a book about productivity or something else, where you could frame it in a way that it wouldn’t be misleading/disappointing to receive this book rather than DGB.
Or you could put people on a wait list control group, where they still get sent DGB, it just comes ~3 months later, and all participants (whether they’ve received the book or not yet) fill out a second survey ~3 months after they first request it.
I’m going to be writing some forum posts soon about the possibilities for this sort of experiment in EA movement building, following on from two such experiments we have run at Animal Advocacy Careers. A lot of the methodology could be similar!