I’d say that if we’re testing people’s attitudes towards certain ideas, in order to discern their attitudes towards effective altruism, then those ideas should actually be indicative of effective altruism- which seems exceedingly uncontroversial.
I wouldn’t say “it’s not possible to tell… unless we have a survey” because you could use various other methods. For example, looking at people’s donation preferences, looking at the population of those who seem to be interested in EA and seeing how many are men and how many are women, and you could examine the attitudes of non-EA without a survey e.g. via interviews, though each of these methods would have their own limitations.
I’d say that if we’re testing people’s attitudes towards certain ideas, in order to discern their attitudes towards effective altruism, then those ideas should actually be indicative of effective altruism- which seems exceedingly uncontroversial.
I wouldn’t say “it’s not possible to tell… unless we have a survey” because you could use various other methods. For example, looking at people’s donation preferences, looking at the population of those who seem to be interested in EA and seeing how many are men and how many are women, and you could examine the attitudes of non-EA without a survey e.g. via interviews, though each of these methods would have their own limitations.
I think the text used in the survey is indicative of Effective Altruism, which is why your response that it doesn’t count confused me.