These are numbers from the most recent full EA Survey (end of 2022), but they’re not limited only to people who joined EA in the most recent year. Slicing it by individual cohorts would reduce the sample size a lot.
My guess is that it would also increase the support for neartermist causes among all recruits (respondents tend to start out neartermist and become more longtermist over time).
That said, if we do look at people who joined EA in 2021 or later (the last 3 years seems decently recent to me, I don’t have the sense that 80K’s recruitment has changed so much in that time frame, n=1059), we see:
Thanks, David! Strongly upvoted.
To clarify, are those numbers relative to the people who got to know about EA in 2023 (via 80,000 Hours or any source)?
Thanks Vasco!
These are numbers from the most recent full EA Survey (end of 2022), but they’re not limited only to people who joined EA in the most recent year. Slicing it by individual cohorts would reduce the sample size a lot.
My guess is that it would also increase the support for neartermist causes among all recruits (respondents tend to start out neartermist and become more longtermist over time).
That said, if we do look at people who joined EA in 2021 or later (the last 3 years seems decently recent to me, I don’t have the sense that 80K’s recruitment has changed so much in that time frame, n=1059), we see:
Global Poverty
80,000 Hours
35.8% rated Global Poverty 4⁄5
34.2% rated Global Poverty 5⁄5
All respondents
40.2% rated Global Poverty 4⁄5
33.2% rated Global Poverty 4⁄5
Animal Welfare
80,000 Hours
26.8% rated Animal Welfare 4⁄5
8.9% rated Animal Welfare 5⁄5
All respondents
29.7% rated Animal Welfare 4⁄5
13.7% rated Animal Welfare 5⁄5