Cause Area: Effective Altruism Surveys
Incorporating and visualizing uncertainty in cost effectiveness analyses: A walkthrough using GiveWell’s estimates for StrongMinds
This post introduces an app—Distributr—developed by Rethink Priorities’ Jamie Elsey to better incorporate and visualize un...
FTX Community Response Survey Results
In December, Rethink Priorities’ Survey team worked with the Center for Effective Altruism (CEA) to rapidly add a section to t...
How many people have heard of effective altruism?
This post reports the results of a survey we ran in April 2022 investigating how many people had heard of ‘effective altruism...
Potentially great ways forecasting can improve the longterm future
In addition to the EA Early Warning Forecasting Center I outlined in my other post, I think there are several ways forecasting m...
EA Survey 2020: Donation Data
Charitable donation (and earning-to-give) has been, and continues to be a prominent, prevalent, and impactful component of the E...
EA Survey 2020: Geography
There are 21 countries with 10 or more respondents - 17 of which are in North America, Europe, or Australasia. 92% of our respon...
How does forecast quantity impact forecast quality on Metaculus?
Many people worry about how much we can trust aggregate forecasts (e.g., the Metaculus community median) that are based on the ...
Disentangling “improving institutional decision-making”
This post discusses what the cause area of “Improving institutional decision-making” (IIDM) currently encompasses, and prese...
EA Survey 2020: Engagement
In this post we describe people’s self-reported levels of engagement in EA, what activities related to effective altruism they...
EA Survey 2020: Community Information
Like last year’s post, this post reports on a number of questions about people’s experiences of the EA community and what fa...