I don’t remember the exact phrasing of the question, but because of the flexibility you note, I would find it easy to answer something like “In what cause areas have you supported or are you planning to support interventions this year?” than “In what cause areas do you support interventions?”
The overlap between the answers is not a great problem for me as respondent, since I can select several, but some of the options will become less meaningful if some people perceive the hypernym relationships differently. Maybe these answers can be instrumented via monetary donations or direct work for charities in the areas. (I hope I’m using that word right. ^^) That strategy will probably become more promising once Open Phil has put out concrete recommendations.
I don’t remember the exact phrasing of the question, but because of the flexibility you note, I would find it easy to answer something like “In what cause areas have you supported or are you planning to support interventions this year?” than “In what cause areas do you support interventions?”
The precise wording was “Which of the following causes do you think you should devote resources to?”
If there were 813 EAs in total, that also puts those who prioritize animal rights at 36.4%. Here’s the breakdown:
Poverty: 71.22%; Metacharity: 51.91%; Rationality: 50.55%; Prioritization: 42.44%; AI Risk: 40.84%; Environmentalism: 38.99%; X-Risk: 37.02%; Animals: 36.41%; Politics: 35.79%; Far Future: 28.66%;
I don’t remember the exact phrasing of the question, but because of the flexibility you note, I would find it easy to answer something like “In what cause areas have you supported or are you planning to support interventions this year?” than “In what cause areas do you support interventions?”
The overlap between the answers is not a great problem for me as respondent, since I can select several, but some of the options will become less meaningful if some people perceive the hypernym relationships differently. Maybe these answers can be instrumented via monetary donations or direct work for charities in the areas. (I hope I’m using that word right. ^^) That strategy will probably become more promising once Open Phil has put out concrete recommendations.
The precise wording was “Which of the following causes do you think you should devote resources to?”