I would expect the number of ea-but-dont-know-about-ea people to be pretty high actually. Givewell received $42 million last year from people who gave $1 million or less, if each person gave $5000 (which I think is a generous amount), that’s 8400 donors compared to the 3,500 that took the EA survey last year. Of course that could just be cause most people don’t like taking surveys, but I would expect that to be countered by a lower average donation amount. In contrast, taking the median estimate of $750 in the last survey, it looks like we have 56,000 self-reported EAs (or at least Givewell EAs), that seems kinds high to me.
Thanks!
Note that for the computation to work, you probably should take the mean and not the median. In the survey that’s $9761 - so the total (claimed) donations from people that took the survey amounts to about $35 million.
Also, I see that from that same survey that they have (partial) data on contribution to each charity. Note that Givewell is not that big relatively in total donations
The full metrics report gives the breakdown of number of donors by donation size and year (for 2016-2018), both as an estimate and for known number of donors.
I would expect the number of ea-but-dont-know-about-ea people to be pretty high actually. Givewell received $42 million last year from people who gave $1 million or less, if each person gave $5000 (which I think is a generous amount), that’s 8400 donors compared to the 3,500 that took the EA survey last year. Of course that could just be cause most people don’t like taking surveys, but I would expect that to be countered by a lower average donation amount. In contrast, taking the median estimate of $750 in the last survey, it looks like we have 56,000 self-reported EAs (or at least Givewell EAs), that seems kinds high to me.
Thanks! Note that for the computation to work, you probably should take the mean and not the median. In the survey that’s $9761 - so the total (claimed) donations from people that took the survey amounts to about $35 million.
Also, I see that from that same survey that they have (partial) data on contribution to each charity. Note that Givewell is not that big relatively in total donations
The full metrics report gives the breakdown of number of donors by donation size and year (for 2016-2018), both as an estimate and for known number of donors.
27,547 estimated GiveWell donors in 2018. Helpful, thanks!