I'd like to advance an alternative hypothesis for the effective altruism/charitable donations data:
People who donate more money to charity spend more time thinking about how effectively that money is used, and hence are more interested in effective altruism
People who have more money donate more money
Aside from reversing the suggested causality (which we obviously can't test from this survey), the difference is pretty narrow, I don't really know enough about statistics to analyse how well the data supports one hypothesis over the other, and while I wou... (read more)
It seems like the effect of effective altruism on charity donations is relatively independent from income.
If I do a straight linear model with predicts charity donation from effective altruism, the effect is 1851 +- 416 $. If I add income into the model the effect shrinks to 1751+-392.
Furthermore being a effective altruist doesn't have a significant effect on income (I tried a few different ways to control it).
I'd like to advance an alternative hypothesis for the effective altruism/charitable donations data:
Aside from reversing the suggested causality (which we obviously can't test from this survey), the difference is pretty narrow, I don't really know enough about statistics to analyse how well the data supports one hypothesis over the other, and while I wou... (read more)