I donât think that âgoing silentâ or failing to report donations is indication that people are not meeting the pledge. Nowadays I donât pay GWWC as an organisation much /â any attention, but Iâm still donating 10% a year (and then some).
To be honest I havenât read closely enough to understand where you do and donât account for âquiet pledge-keepersâ in your analysis, but I at least think stuff like this is just plain wrong:
total number of people ceasing reporting donations (and very likely ceasing keeping the pledge)
In this analysis, Iâm looking specifically at people who do report donations that are distinctly and clearly inconsistent with pledge keeping. âQuiet pledge-keepersâ who do not report any data would not be included in this analysis because they would not be reporting data to the EA Survey. So the phenomena I report here cannot be mere instances of quiet pledge-keeping.
As for the point âtotal number of people ceasing reporting donations (and very likely ceasing keeping the pledge)â which refers to GWWC analysis that may refer to quiet pledge-keeping, it is impossible to know to what degree people do or do not keep the pledge but fail to report it. My intuition, shared by others, is that people who donât return GWWCâs emails asking for whether people keep the pledge are likely not keeping the pledge, but I agree there can be exceptions to this (such as maybe you) and that perhaps there are actually a lot of quiet pledge-keepers.
I donât think that âgoing silentâ or failing to report donations is indication that people are not meeting the pledge. Nowadays I donât pay GWWC as an organisation much /â any attention, but Iâm still donating 10% a year (and then some).
To be honest I havenât read closely enough to understand where you do and donât account for âquiet pledge-keepersâ in your analysis, but I at least think stuff like this is just plain wrong:
In this analysis, Iâm looking specifically at people who do report donations that are distinctly and clearly inconsistent with pledge keeping. âQuiet pledge-keepersâ who do not report any data would not be included in this analysis because they would not be reporting data to the EA Survey. So the phenomena I report here cannot be mere instances of quiet pledge-keeping.
As for the point âtotal number of people ceasing reporting donations (and very likely ceasing keeping the pledge)â which refers to GWWC analysis that may refer to quiet pledge-keeping, it is impossible to know to what degree people do or do not keep the pledge but fail to report it. My intuition, shared by others, is that people who donât return GWWCâs emails asking for whether people keep the pledge are likely not keeping the pledge, but I agree there can be exceptions to this (such as maybe you) and that perhaps there are actually a lot of quiet pledge-keepers.