This is great, thank you for all of your work on it! In future iterations, do you think you might look at which podcasts in particular are people’s entry point? We’ve seen an influx of people entering EA NYC via Sam Harris over the past several months and I’m curious what the podcast breakdown looks like and what lessons we can take from it.
In response to your comment I went over the descriptions from respondents who said they first heard of EA via a podcast and coded, where possible, the name of the podcast or podcast host. I also included the numbers from respondents who first heard of EA via 80,000 Hours and who specifically mentioned the 80,000 Hours podcast. The results are in the graph below.
It shouldn’t be too surprising to hear people who enter EA mention Sam Harris because his podcast is by far the most popular podcast mentioned, at 62.6% of all podcasts.
Sam Harris’ audience consists largely of respondents identifying as a man (n = 125, 86.8%). Respondents identifying as a woman made up the remaining numbers (n = 19, 13.2%), no respondents indicated being binary or preferred to self-describe.
Their average age is 30.69 (median of 28), with a minimum of 19 and maximum of 64, see below.
Regarding racial identity, a large majority reported identifying as White (n = 117, 86.0%).
Finally, there was a roughly even split between less engaged (in EA) respondents (n = 66, 45.5%) and more engaged respondents (n = 79, 54.5%).
This is great, thank you for all of your work on it! In future iterations, do you think you might look at which podcasts in particular are people’s entry point? We’ve seen an influx of people entering EA NYC via Sam Harris over the past several months and I’m curious what the podcast breakdown looks like and what lessons we can take from it.
Hi Rockwell, thanks for the question.
In response to your comment I went over the descriptions from respondents who said they first heard of EA via a podcast and coded, where possible, the name of the podcast or podcast host. I also included the numbers from respondents who first heard of EA via 80,000 Hours and who specifically mentioned the 80,000 Hours podcast. The results are in the graph below.
It shouldn’t be too surprising to hear people who enter EA mention Sam Harris because his podcast is by far the most popular podcast mentioned, at 62.6% of all podcasts.
Wow, thanks so much for looking into this! If you have the time, I’m also curious about the demographic breakdown of those who listed Sam Harris.
Sure!
Sam Harris’ audience consists largely of respondents identifying as a man (n = 125, 86.8%). Respondents identifying as a woman made up the remaining numbers (n = 19, 13.2%), no respondents indicated being binary or preferred to self-describe.
Their average age is 30.69 (median of 28), with a minimum of 19 and maximum of 64, see below.
Regarding racial identity, a large majority reported identifying as White (n = 117, 86.0%).
Finally, there was a roughly even split between less engaged (in EA) respondents (n = 66, 45.5%) and more engaged respondents (n = 79, 54.5%).