Thanks for the feedback huw.
The question should be interpreted as being about the substantive cause area of mental health (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/mental-health-cause-area), not as a subset of movement building by providing mental health services for EAs, so we’ve added ‘not as part of EA movement building’ to the question to make it clearer.
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EA Survey 2024: How People Get Involved in EA
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No, they’re natural logarithms.
Perceived Moral Value of Animals and Cortical Neuron Count
Hi Jessica,
Just to clarify the plot a bit: The y-axis is the racial category and in addition to showing each category and their average + 95% CI, I also added histograms to show the underlying distribution of values. This is helpful for assessing whether the average is actually a good summary of the data (not to actually figure out the distribution in and of itself). In this case, it shows that the distribution of community satisfaction for Black or African American people in the EA community looks a bit unusual, with more observations on the lower and higher end. However, the total sample size for this category is only 34. This is quite low so I wouldn’t be surprised if the distribution will end up looking differently if the sample size was greater.
Why some people disagree with the CAIS statement on AI
Thanks for the question James.
There are some differences between regions (USA, UK, Other Europe, Rest of the world), as you can see in the graphs below.Since you also specifically mentioned the Netherlands, I also looked at the differences between the Netherlands and all other countries. There were only a total of 108 respondents from the Netherlands, so the confidence intervals are pretty wide, but some of the differences seem large enough to be potentially interesting.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have about these results!
EA Survey 2022: What Helps People Have an Impact and Connect with Other EAs
EA Survey 2022: Community Satisfaction, Retention, and Mental Health
Sure!
Sam Harris’ audience consists largely of respondents identifying as a man (n = 125, 86.8%). Respondents identifying as a woman made up the remaining numbers (n = 19, 13.2%), no respondents indicated being binary or preferred to self-describe.
Their average age is 30.69 (median of 28), with a minimum of 19 and maximum of 64, see below.Regarding racial identity, a large majority reported identifying as White (n = 117, 86.0%).
Finally, there was a roughly even split between less engaged (in EA) respondents (n = 66, 45.5%) and more engaged respondents (n = 79, 54.5%).
Hi Rockwell, thanks for the question.
In response to your comment I went over the descriptions from respondents who said they first heard of EA via a podcast and coded, where possible, the name of the podcast or podcast host. I also included the numbers from respondents who first heard of EA via 80,000 Hours and who specifically mentioned the 80,000 Hours podcast. The results are in the graph below.It shouldn’t be too surprising to hear people who enter EA mention Sam Harris because his podcast is by far the most popular podcast mentioned, at 62.6% of all podcasts.
EA Survey 2022: How People Get Involved in EA
Thanks Stefan and Jason!
We used the same rubric as in previous analyses (e.g., see here), but it makes sense to repeat it so I also added a footnote.