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su3su2u1 has accused EAers of hypocrisy in not donating despite a moral philosophy centering around donating; hypocrisy is about actions inconsistent with one's own claimed beliefs, and on EA's own aggregative utilitarian premises, total dollars donated are what matter, not anything about the distribution of dollars over people.
Hence, in investigating whether EAers are hypocrites, I must be interested in totals and not internal details of how many are zeros.
(The totals aren't going to change regardless of whether you model it using mixture or hierarchical or zero-inflated distributions; and as the distribution-free tests say, the EAers do report higher median donations.)
I'm with Lumifer on this: even though what EAists are supposed to care about is basically total money given (assuming it's given as effectively as possible), that doesn't mean that hypocrisy of EAists is a function of total money given.
Having said that, just eyeballing the data seems sufficient to demonstrate that EAists are (at least according to self-report) more generous than non-EAists in this population, and I bet any halfway reasonable analysis will yield the same conclusion.