Are you wanting non “actively involved” EAs to complete the survey?
The definition of “active involvement” is given as working >5 hours per week in at least one EA cause area, and it reads like the $40 is only donated for people in that category? Suggesting maybe these are the only people you want to hear from?
This seems quite strict! I’ve taken the GWWC pledge and I give all my income to EA causes above a cap. I also volunteer with the humane league, probably spending a few hours a month on average doing stuff with them. And I check the EA forum pretty regularly, even commenting sometimes! But I definitely don’t spend 5 hours of my time a week working on the causes from that list, so can’t honestly describe myself as an “actively involved” EA in answer to that question.
If the survey’s not for me, then that’s obviously fine, it’s your survey! Can’t help feeling a bit disappointed that I don’t qualify as “actively involved” though! Maybe a survey for “EAs involved in direct work” would be a kinder way of phrasing it?
Thanks for your thoughtful comment—I think that is indeed a better way of phrasing it. For the sake of continuity of the survey we probably won’t update it now, but I agree that it probably should have been phrased this way to begin with. However, it does seem perfectly reasonable to add in the option that Jason suggested below, so we will go ahead and do this.
Ultimately, we sought some unambiguous cutoff to qualify for the donation amount, and we thought that 5hr/week devoted to meaningfully working on an EA cause would be a reasonable criterion for this. We definitely still want to hear from you and are certainly not going to discount or exclude your responses, but we are still currently planning to donate $40 * number of actively/directly involved EAs who take the survey to the selected charities.
Makes sense, thank you for the reply, I appreciate it!
And good to know you still want to hear from people who don’t meet that threshold of involvement, I wasn’t sure if that was the case or not from the wording of the post and survey questions. I will fill it in now!
I thought that question should have an option for “>= 5 hr/wk but not >= 5 hr in any specific cause area,” and should be called “significant time involvement” or somesuch.
Are you wanting non “actively involved” EAs to complete the survey?
The definition of “active involvement” is given as working >5 hours per week in at least one EA cause area, and it reads like the $40 is only donated for people in that category? Suggesting maybe these are the only people you want to hear from?
This seems quite strict! I’ve taken the GWWC pledge and I give all my income to EA causes above a cap. I also volunteer with the humane league, probably spending a few hours a month on average doing stuff with them. And I check the EA forum pretty regularly, even commenting sometimes! But I definitely don’t spend 5 hours of my time a week working on the causes from that list, so can’t honestly describe myself as an “actively involved” EA in answer to that question.
If the survey’s not for me, then that’s obviously fine, it’s your survey! Can’t help feeling a bit disappointed that I don’t qualify as “actively involved” though! Maybe a survey for “EAs involved in direct work” would be a kinder way of phrasing it?
Thanks for your thoughtful comment—I think that is indeed a better way of phrasing it. For the sake of continuity of the survey we probably won’t update it now, but I agree that it probably should have been phrased this way to begin with. However, it does seem perfectly reasonable to add in the option that Jason suggested below, so we will go ahead and do this.
Ultimately, we sought some unambiguous cutoff to qualify for the donation amount, and we thought that 5hr/week devoted to meaningfully working on an EA cause would be a reasonable criterion for this. We definitely still want to hear from you and are certainly not going to discount or exclude your responses, but we are still currently planning to donate $40 * number of actively/directly involved EAs who take the survey to the selected charities.
Makes sense, thank you for the reply, I appreciate it!
And good to know you still want to hear from people who don’t meet that threshold of involvement, I wasn’t sure if that was the case or not from the wording of the post and survey questions. I will fill it in now!
I thought that question should have an option for “>= 5 hr/wk but not >= 5 hr in any specific cause area,” and should be called “significant time involvement” or somesuch.