… we seem to have surveyed a lot of people who were meaningfully affected by influences before mid-2017; on average, the people we surveyed say they first heard about EA/EA-adjacent ideas in 2015.
So I think there’s often a delay of 2-4 years between when a survey respondent first hears about EA/EA-adjacent ideas and when they start engaging in the kind of way that could lead our advisors to recommend them.
I think this is what one would predict given what we’ve reported previously about the relationship between time since joining EA and engagement (see 2019 as well).
To put this in more concrete terms: only about 25% of highly engaged (5/5) EAs in our sample joined after 2017. That may even be a low bar relative to the population you are targeting (or at least somewhat orthogonal to it). Looking at EA org employees (which might be a closer proxy), only 20% joined after 2017. See below:
I think this is what one would predict given what we’ve reported previously about the relationship between time since joining EA and engagement (see 2019 as well).
To put this in more concrete terms: only about 25% of highly engaged (5/5) EAs in our sample joined after 2017. That may even be a low bar relative to the population you are targeting (or at least somewhat orthogonal to it). Looking at EA org employees (which might be a closer proxy), only 20% joined after 2017. See below: