On the meta-issue, I agree, it will be interesting to see different results. Charity Science recently ran a skeptic-oriented Giving Game, they will write it up soon.
For the information dissemination, we started with a brief presentation on the two charities, for AMF using TLYCS’ materials and for the local charity based on research done by a couple of members. That way, everyone had about the same amount of material, and we didn’t focus too much time on the details. We instead focused on the higher-level reasons for giving and priorities—things such as “do you give locally but less impactfully” vs. “do you give globally but more impactfully.” That worked out well for us, and really got the participants well engaged with emotion-laden topics.
On the meta-issue, I agree, it will be interesting to see different results. Charity Science recently ran a skeptic-oriented Giving Game, they will write it up soon.
For the information dissemination, we started with a brief presentation on the two charities, for AMF using TLYCS’ materials and for the local charity based on research done by a couple of members. That way, everyone had about the same amount of material, and we didn’t focus too much time on the details. We instead focused on the higher-level reasons for giving and priorities—things such as “do you give locally but less impactfully” vs. “do you give globally but more impactfully.” That worked out well for us, and really got the participants well engaged with emotion-laden topics.