Take the EA survey, help the EA movement grow and potentially win $250 to your favorite charity
This year’s EA Survey is now ready to be shared! This is a survey of all EAs to learn about the movement and how it can improve. The data collected in the survey is used to help EA groups improve and grow EA. Data is also used to populate the map of EAs, create new EA meetup groups, and create EA Profiles and the EA Donation Registry.
If you are an EA or otherwise familiar with the community, we hope you will take it using this link. All results will be anonymised and made publicly available to members of the EA community. As an added bonus, one random survey taker will be selected to win a $250 donation to their favorite charity.
Please share the survey with others who might be interested using this link rather than the one above: http://bit.ly/1OqsVWo
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(Cross-posted on Discussion from Main by popular request.)
For reference, here are the results from last year’s survey, along with Peter’s analysis of them. This includes a link to a Github repository including the raw data, with names and email addresses removed.
Notable findings included:
The top three sources people in our sample first heard about EA from were LessWrong, friends, or Giving What We Can. LessWrong, GiveWell, and personal contact were cited as the top three reasons people continued to get more involved in EA. (Keep in mind that EAs in our sample might not mean all EAs overall, as discussed in .)
66.9% of the EAs in our sample were from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, but we have EAs in many countries. You can see the public location responses visualized on the Map of EAs!
The Bay Area had the most EAs in our sample, followed by London and then Oxford. New York and Washington DC have surprisingly many EAs and may have flown under the radar.
The EAs in our sample in total donated over $5.23 million in 2013. The median donation size was $450 in 2013 donations.
238 EAs in our sample donated 1% of their income or more, and 84 EAs in our sample give 10% of their income. You can see the past and planned donations that people have chosen to made public on the EA Donation Registry.
The top three charities donated to by EAs in our sample were GiveWell’s three picks for 2013 AMF, SCI, and GiveDirectly. MIRI was the fourth largest donation target, followed by unrestricted donations to GiveWell.
Poverty was the most popular cause among EAs in our sample, followed by metacharity and then rationality.
33.1% of EAs in our sample were either vegan or vegetarian.
34.1% of EAs in our sample who indicated a career indicated that they were aiming to earn to give.