thank you for your response. Sorry for my ignorance, as I did know about Givewell but not about this possibility and am just starting my EA journey.
In my post I am actually referring to one finding of the article such as:
“While the sample was composed entirely of people sufficiently committed to charitable giving to have gone to the trouble of setting up a charity bank account, interviewees were often disarmingly honest about their lack of knowledge regarding the causes and charities they support. Despite distributing thousands of pounds a year, one donor prefaced his replies by saying: “I’m going to be the wrong person to ask because I’m not sure I give it that much intellectual thought” (male, thirties, high income). Others admitted a similar lack of investment in their charitable decision making” (Breeze, 2013, p. 6).
and although it might contradict with the key conclusions in the abstract, the article was about getting a holistic perspective on very different people and motives of donation behavior. In my post and my considerations I focused only on this apparent sub-group of people (the size and therefore importance of that “group” can not be determined due to the qualitative nature of the article) that the authors describe who seemingly want to donate but don’t care too much who will receive it apparently and how to get them to donate more effectively given their motivation to do good but also lack of initiative.
These are somewhat “marketing” considerations on how to target different groups of donors optimally.
Hey,
thank you for your response. Sorry for my ignorance, as I did know about Givewell but not about this possibility and am just starting my EA journey.
In my post I am actually referring to one finding of the article such as:
“While the sample was composed entirely of people sufficiently committed to charitable giving to have gone to the trouble of setting up a charity bank account, interviewees were often disarmingly honest about their lack of knowledge regarding the causes and charities they support. Despite distributing thousands of pounds a year, one donor prefaced his replies by saying: “I’m going to be the wrong person to ask because I’m not sure I give it that much intellectual thought” (male, thirties, high income). Others admitted a similar lack of investment in their charitable decision making” (Breeze, 2013, p. 6).
and although it might contradict with the key conclusions in the abstract, the article was about getting a holistic perspective on very different people and motives of donation behavior. In my post and my considerations I focused only on this apparent sub-group of people (the size and therefore importance of that “group” can not be determined due to the qualitative nature of the article) that the authors describe who seemingly want to donate but don’t care too much who will receive it apparently and how to get them to donate more effectively given their motivation to do good but also lack of initiative.
These are somewhat “marketing” considerations on how to target different groups of donors optimally.