I just noticed that there were people who report first finding out about EA from 80k in 2009 and 2010. I’d say 80k was only informally formed in early 2011, and the name was only chosen at the end of 2011, so those survey responses must be mistaken. I gather that the sample sizes for the early years are small, so this is probably just one or two people.
Thanks Ben. Yeh, this is 3 people in 2009 and 3 people in 2010 (out of 2473 responses to these questions overall). There are a handful of similar errors for Doing Good Better. Every year, there are a few people who seem to get the years wrong in this way (alongside a lot of responses saying explicitly that they don’t remember).
Anecdotally, (both in the survey and elsewhere) I find a surprising number of people confuse CEA, 80K and GWWC (not to mention, Rethink Charity, its various projects and Charity Science).
I just noticed that there were people who report first finding out about EA from 80k in 2009 and 2010. I’d say 80k was only informally formed in early 2011, and the name was only chosen at the end of 2011, so those survey responses must be mistaken. I gather that the sample sizes for the early years are small, so this is probably just one or two people.
Thanks Ben. Yeh, this is 3 people in 2009 and 3 people in 2010 (out of 2473 responses to these questions overall). There are a handful of similar errors for Doing Good Better. Every year, there are a few people who seem to get the years wrong in this way (alongside a lot of responses saying explicitly that they don’t remember).
Anecdotally, (both in the survey and elsewhere) I find a surprising number of people confuse CEA, 80K and GWWC (not to mention, Rethink Charity, its various projects and Charity Science).