I think you point to relevant tradeoffs here. I myself am currently testing a different scheme to determine my donation: let the public (or anyone interested in participating) decide collectively where to donate. I believe this might...
improve the decision quality due to crowd-sourcing information and reducing any bias (moral or otherwise) that I might have
encourage others to think about various causes and potentially make them donate more as well
The downside is probably that the total effort spent in this decision is larger than would I take it on my own...
My polls look like this, sometimes with a fixed total amount, sometimes with a total that increases with participation (to give an incentive). Typically around 100 people participate in it:
I think you point to relevant tradeoffs here. I myself am currently testing a different scheme to determine my donation: let the public (or anyone interested in participating) decide collectively where to donate. I believe this might...
improve the decision quality due to crowd-sourcing information and reducing any bias (moral or otherwise) that I might have
encourage others to think about various causes and potentially make them donate more as well
The downside is probably that the total effort spent in this decision is larger than would I take it on my own...
My polls look like this, sometimes with a fixed total amount, sometimes with a total that increases with participation (to give an incentive). Typically around 100 people participate in it:
What do you think of this?