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gjm comments on LW survey: Effective Altruists and donations - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: gwern 14 May 2015 12:44AM

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Comment author: gjm 15 May 2015 04:05:43PM 2 points [-]

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.