I like these ideas but have something to add re your ‘keen beans’, or rather, their opposite—at what point is someone insufficiently engaged with EA to bother considering them when assessing the effectiveness of interventions? If someone signs up to an EA mailing list and then lets all the emails go to their junk folder without ever reading them or considering the ideas again, is that person actually part of the target group for the intervention? They are part of our statistics (as in, they count towards the 95% of ‘people on the EA mailing list’ who did not respond to the survey), is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Yeah, fair point. No doubt there’s sub-groups that signs up because they like signing up to things, or liked the idea at the time but lost interest etc. These folks won’t engage no matter what time horizon.
But equally there are sub-groups that are insufficiently engaged at the moment due to circumstances constraining them—major life changes (job change/loss, marriage/divorce, adding or losing family members). These folks would be coming out of such circumstances eventually and at that point would be looking to engage. My over-1-year-late reply is an example of this!
I like these ideas but have something to add re your ‘keen beans’, or rather, their opposite—at what point is someone insufficiently engaged with EA to bother considering them when assessing the effectiveness of interventions? If someone signs up to an EA mailing list and then lets all the emails go to their junk folder without ever reading them or considering the ideas again, is that person actually part of the target group for the intervention? They are part of our statistics (as in, they count towards the 95% of ‘people on the EA mailing list’ who did not respond to the survey), is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Yeah, fair point. No doubt there’s sub-groups that signs up because they like signing up to things, or liked the idea at the time but lost interest etc. These folks won’t engage no matter what time horizon.
But equally there are sub-groups that are insufficiently engaged at the moment due to circumstances constraining them—major life changes (job change/loss, marriage/divorce, adding or losing family members). These folks would be coming out of such circumstances eventually and at that point would be looking to engage. My over-1-year-late reply is an example of this!