The idea of scope insensitivity is interesting. I wonder if income has any impact on scope insensitivity. For example, in the drowning birds scenario, do people give the amount they they feel they can spare at the moment? Presumably this amount does not shift much month to month and therefore wouldn’t change with the increase in need. From a fundraising perspective, this concept is helpful. A campaign to put one person experiencing homelessness in an apartment would do just as well as a campaign to get a group of people in apartments.
The idea of scope insensitivity is interesting. I wonder if income has any impact on scope insensitivity. For example, in the drowning birds scenario, do people give the amount they they feel they can spare at the moment? Presumably this amount does not shift much month to month and therefore wouldn’t change with the increase in need. From a fundraising perspective, this concept is helpful. A campaign to put one person experiencing homelessness in an apartment would do just as well as a campaign to get a group of people in apartments.