At the end, I’d be curious to see a histogram of donation amounts. Specifically, I’m interested in whether the rewards appear to have incentivized people to donate certain amounts.
For purely data-analysis purposes, I wish the thresholds had been, e.g., $13.37, $271.82, or other numbers that were slightly above a traditional, round donation threshold amount. That would have yielded better information about whether people who would have counterfactually donated at the traditional threshold instead donated slightly more to grab the reward. We’d know that people who donated $13.37 were reward-motivated at least in part, and that people who donated $10 weren’t. People who donated $15 may or may not have been motivated (they may be motivated folks who have a love of round numbers, or might have donated $15 anyway).
Good idea, we can do this. We’ll probably write a retro post at the end and this can be one of the stats we include.
From eyeballing the amounts we have been sent, it looks like the bulk of the pot is made up of large donations (>=$250), and these aren’t clustering around the reward amount of $250. I would also guess (based on very little) that, especially for the flair, there is a large second order effect of increasing the general awareness of the donation election and this nudges other people to donate.
Agree re: the likelihood of a second order awareness / social proof impact. An absence of clustering would make me think the second-order effect was the predominant one, which would be useful info for designing rewards for future fundraisers.
At the end, I’d be curious to see a histogram of donation amounts. Specifically, I’m interested in whether the rewards appear to have incentivized people to donate certain amounts.
For purely data-analysis purposes, I wish the thresholds had been, e.g., $13.37, $271.82, or other numbers that were slightly above a traditional, round donation threshold amount. That would have yielded better information about whether people who would have counterfactually donated at the traditional threshold instead donated slightly more to grab the reward. We’d know that people who donated $13.37 were reward-motivated at least in part, and that people who donated $10 weren’t. People who donated $15 may or may not have been motivated (they may be motivated folks who have a love of round numbers, or might have donated $15 anyway).
Good idea, we can do this. We’ll probably write a retro post at the end and this can be one of the stats we include.
From eyeballing the amounts we have been sent, it looks like the bulk of the pot is made up of large donations (>=$250), and these aren’t clustering around the reward amount of $250. I would also guess (based on very little) that, especially for the flair, there is a large second order effect of increasing the general awareness of the donation election and this nudges other people to donate.
Agree re: the likelihood of a second order awareness / social proof impact. An absence of clustering would make me think the second-order effect was the predominant one, which would be useful info for designing rewards for future fundraisers.