I did not ask for impressions about CGD, JPAL, etc. I did ask an EA “feeling thermometer” question about EA in general (of the subset of people who said they knew enough about EA to discuss with a friend), and I got this (0 is as negative as possible and 100 is as positive as possible):
That spike at 50 is an answer of total indifference, which again affirms that many of the people who said they knew about EA probably didn’t know very much about it.
The question about “which subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EA” is a very good one. I’m not sure, and I don’t think I can really ask my data to speak to that (but maybe...).
I think the lowest hanging fruit is probably more technically oriented people (economists or quant-oriented political scientists or sociologists), but personally I think a fairly wide cross-section of international development profs could contribute and might be interested in doing so.
I did not ask for impressions about CGD, JPAL, etc. I did ask an EA “feeling thermometer” question about EA in general (of the subset of people who said they knew enough about EA to discuss with a friend), and I got this (0 is as negative as possible and 100 is as positive as possible):
That spike at 50 is an answer of total indifference, which again affirms that many of the people who said they knew about EA probably didn’t know very much about it.
The question about “which subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EA” is a very good one. I’m not sure, and I don’t think I can really ask my data to speak to that (but maybe...).
I think the lowest hanging fruit is probably more technically oriented people (economists or quant-oriented political scientists or sociologists), but personally I think a fairly wide cross-section of international development profs could contribute and might be interested in doing so.
You might also be interested in the full report.