Cause Area: Effective Altruism Surveys
EA Survey 2020: Cause Prioritization
Global Poverty is the highest rated cause overall. We found support for longtermist and meta causes to increase with higher self...
Types of specification problems in forecasting
In the context of forecasting, how you ask a question can be a large factor in how much information you get from the forecasts o...
EA groups survey 2020
222 unique groups completed the survey from 50 different countries. There were roughly equal numbers of city groups (78) and uni...
EA Survey 2020: Demographics
The composition of the EA community remains similar to last year, in terms of age (82% 34 or younger), race (76% white) and gend...
EA Survey 2019: EA cities and the cost of living
We examine the cost of living in the cities with the largest numbers of EAs. Most cities with large EA populations are very expe...
EA Survey 2019: How many EAs live in the main EA hubs?
We estimate that 6.5-8.8% of EAs live in the San Francisco Bay Area and 5.3-7.3% live in London. Both are much larger than the n...
EA Survey 2019: How many people are there in the EA community?
It is uncertain how many people there in the EA community and what proportion of these the EA Survey manages to sample. We compa...
EA Survey 2019: Engagement Levels
There are many ways of measuring engagement in EA, from membership of various groups to a range of actions such as donating to o...
EA Survey 2019: Community Information
More respondents’ level of interest in EA increased over the last year (43%) than decreased (18%). The most common reasons for...
EA Survey 2019: How EAs Get Involved in EA
Personal Contacts (14%), LessWrong (9.6%) and 80,000 Hours (9.6%) are still the main ways most people have heard of EA over time...
