Thanks, Nithin! I’ll make the instructions clearer. For the demo, you need to adopt a ‘persona’ that is within the target demographic to go through the experience from their perspective. Would it help to provide some realistic financial info to input for this persona (i.e., income of $200k, expenses of $5k/month) or was it simply the lack of instruction that you needed to do this that caused the confusion?
And yes, adding videos/images is definitely on the roadmap to explore, with some hesitancies including the risk of emotional manipulation. There’s research on visual media increasing prosocial behaviour, for example, the “watching eyes effect” where “laboratory and field experiments have shown that people are more likely to be prosocial in the presence of watching eyes images”. The intellectual honesty/emotional manipulation of such interventions isn’t my area of expertise, so I’d be very grateful for any input from this community on heuristics for evaluating them.
I actually do fit the persona quite well, so for me it wasn’t inputting the information; I just didn’t realize you needed to mark no on the giving pledge question (and it seemed like changing my answer to “no” after I had already marked “yes” didn’t change the state of the form until I refreshed the page).
So, I would say it was mostly lack of instruction/inability to change the state of that specific question.
Hope that’s clear! Totally understandable if it doesn’t really matter given that I am just trying it out but already engaged in EA/pledges (so not really the target demographic).
Thanks for following up—that is actually just a bug in the flow that is sadly too annoying to fix before I hopefully improve the whole demo experience and make it irrelevant :)
Thanks, Nithin! I’ll make the instructions clearer. For the demo, you need to adopt a ‘persona’ that is within the target demographic to go through the experience from their perspective. Would it help to provide some realistic financial info to input for this persona (i.e., income of $200k, expenses of $5k/month) or was it simply the lack of instruction that you needed to do this that caused the confusion?
And yes, adding videos/images is definitely on the roadmap to explore, with some hesitancies including the risk of emotional manipulation. There’s research on visual media increasing prosocial behaviour, for example, the “watching eyes effect” where “laboratory and field experiments have shown that people are more likely to be prosocial in the presence of watching eyes images”. The intellectual honesty/emotional manipulation of such interventions isn’t my area of expertise, so I’d be very grateful for any input from this community on heuristics for evaluating them.
I actually do fit the persona quite well, so for me it wasn’t inputting the information; I just didn’t realize you needed to mark no on the giving pledge question (and it seemed like changing my answer to “no” after I had already marked “yes” didn’t change the state of the form until I refreshed the page).
So, I would say it was mostly lack of instruction/inability to change the state of that specific question.
Hope that’s clear! Totally understandable if it doesn’t really matter given that I am just trying it out but already engaged in EA/pledges (so not really the target demographic).
Thanks for following up—that is actually just a bug in the flow that is sadly too annoying to fix before I hopefully improve the whole demo experience and make it irrelevant :)