Interesting read!
Just a thought: does anyone have any thoughts on religion and EA? I don’t mean it in a “saving souls is cost effective” way, more in the moral philosophy way.
My personal take is that unless someone is really hardcore/radical/orthodox, then most of what EA says would be positive/ethical for most religious persons. That is certainly my experience talking to religious folks, no one has ever gotten mad at me unless i get too consequentalist. Religious people might even be more open to giving what we can pledge, and EA altruism in some ways, because of the common practise of tithing. though they might decide that “my faith is the most cost effective”, but that only sometimes happens, they seem to donate on top of it usually.
PS: Michael, was it my question on the facebook mental health EA post that prompted you to write this? Just curious.
Hi! i found this study while listening to freakanomics radio, and it says that poverty does indeed lower IQ, which might imply that donating to Givedirectly could be a way to increase IQ?
I don’t know, but here is a link to the study. (thank you for writing this, i found your post very interesting)
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976