Ben_West🔸 comments on Testing Framings of EA and Longtermism

[Ben_West🔸]

This is great, thinks for doing it!

I apologize if this was listed above and I missed it, but what was the specific question you asked? “How much do you like the following terms?”

[David_Moss]

Thanks Ben!

For descriptions or descriptions with terms the questions were “How much do you like or dislike each of the following?” (Study 2) and “Please indicate the extent to which you like or dislike the following” (Study 3), both asked on a 7 point scale from “Dislike a great deal”—“Like a great deal”.

For terms only, we included some more instructions to ensure that people evaluated the terms specifically, rather than trying to evaluate the things referred to by the terms: “Based only on the terms provided below, how much do you like or dislike each of the following? (Please note that you do not have to have heard of the terms to answer. Please just answer based on the names below without looking up additional information).” This was also asked on a 7 point scale from “Dislike a great deal”—“Like a great deal”.

For cause areas (Study 1), the question: “Based on the description of each cause area below, please indicate to what extent you like or dislike a movement that promotes giving resources to this area.” And, again, we used the scale 7 point scale from “Dislike a great deal”—“Like a great deal”.