I share your feeling towards it… but I also often say that one’s “skin in the game” (your latter example) is someone else’s “conflict of interest.”
I don’t think that the listener / reader is usually in a good position to distinguish between your first and your second example; that’s enough to justify the practice of disclosing this as a potential “conflict of interest.” In addition, by knowing you already work for cause X, I might consider if your case is affected by some kind of cognitive bias.
I share your feeling towards it… but I also often say that one’s “skin in the game” (your latter example) is someone else’s “conflict of interest.”
I don’t think that the listener / reader is usually in a good position to distinguish between your first and your second example; that’s enough to justify the practice of disclosing this as a potential “conflict of interest.” In addition, by knowing you already work for cause X, I might consider if your case is affected by some kind of cognitive bias.
I’m not objecting to providing the information (I think that is good), I’m objecting to calling it a “conflict of interest”.
I’d be much more keen on something like this (source):