YouGov recently reported the results of a survey (n=1000) suggesting that about “one in five (22%) Americans are familiar with effective altruism.”[1]We think these results are exceptionally unlikely to be true. Their 22% figure is very similar to the proportion of Americans we previously found claim to have heard of effective altruism (19%) in our earlier survey (n=6130). But, after conducting appropriate checks, we estimated that much lower percentages are likely to have genuinely heard of EA[2] (2.6% after the most stringent checks, which we speculate is still likely to be somewhat inflated[3]).Is it possible that these numbers have simply dramatically increased following the FTX scandal?Fortunately, we have tested this with multiple followup surveys explicitly designed with this possibility in mind.[4] In our most recent survey (conducted October 6th[5]), we estimated that approximately 16% (13.0%-20.4%) of US adults would claim to have heard of EA. Yet, when we add in [...] ---Outline:(02:00) Attitudes towards EA(02:35) ConclusionsThe original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. ---
First published:
November 2nd, 2023

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CwKiAt54aJjcqoQDh/are-1-in-5-americans-familiar-with-ea
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