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Comment author: gjm 19 May 2015 06:45:26PM 1 point [-]

I don't think su3su2su1 made any claim involving donations split by EA-ness; wasn't it just that the median donation reported in the LW survey[1] (as a whole) was zero? (The underlying assumption presumably being that LW is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Effective Altruism, so that if LW users generally aren't generous then EAs must likewise not be generous.)

[1] Which LW survey? No idea, of course. It seems fairly clear that su3su2su1 was prioritizing for rhetorical effect over accurate analysis anyway.

Comment author: gwern 20 May 2015 02:47:39PM 1 point [-]

I don't think su3su2su1 made any claim involving donations split by EA-ness

Of course he did. It's literally the first line of my post:

the median charitable donation for an EA in the Less Wrong survey was 0.

Comment author: gjm 20 May 2015 02:57:38PM 0 points [-]

Wow. I totally can't read. You are of course completely right. Sorry about that.

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