Did you ask any questions about peopleās impressions of EA (adjacent) organizations like JPAL, IDInisght, CGD or GiveWell?
I would also be curious whether you have intuitions on which subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EA /ā contributing to the movement.
I did not ask for impressions about CGD, JPAL, etc. I did ask an EA āfeeling thermometerā 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 didnāt know very much about it.
The question about āwhich subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EAā is a very good one. Iām not sure, and I donāt 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.
Did you ask any questions about peopleās impressions of EA (adjacent) organizations like JPAL, IDInisght, CGD or GiveWell?
I would also be curious whether you have intuitions on which subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EA /ā contributing to the movement.
I did not ask for impressions about CGD, JPAL, etc. I did ask an EA āfeeling thermometerā 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 didnāt know very much about it.
The question about āwhich subsets of the profession might be more or less interested in EAā is a very good one. Iām not sure, and I donāt 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.