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  • Introduction/overview
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    • Introduction
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      • Pledge page (options trial)
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      • YouTube Remarketing
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      • Pre-giving-tues. email A/B
        • Preregistration: OftW pre-GT
    • The Life You Can Save (TLYCS)
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      • ICRC - quick overview
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  • 📋(In)effective Altruistic choices: Review of theory and evidence
    • Introduction...
    • The challenge: drivers of effective/ineffective giving
      • How little we know...
    • Models, theories, psych. norms
    • Tools and trials: overview
      • Tools/interventions: principles
      • Outcomes: Effective gift/consider impact)
        • (Effectiveness information and its presentation)
        • (Outcome: Pledge, give substantially (& effectively))
          • (Moral duty (of well-off))
        • Give if you win/ conditional pledge
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  • Appendix
    • How this 'gitbook' works
      • Other tech
    • Literature: animal advocacy messaging
    • Charity ratings, rankings, messages
    • "A large-scale online experiment" (participants-aware)
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  1. (In)effective Altruistic choices: Review of theory and evidence

Models, theories, psych. norms

An overall characterization of widely-cited and 'conventional-wisdom' evidenced background drivers barriers to effectiveness X charitable giving

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Barriers/obstacles to effective giving: classification

We focus on the 'barriers' or 'hurdles to giving effectively' among individuals who already engage in some charitable giving and other-regarding acts. Loosely, a donor would need to "jump over all of these hurdles" and cross each of these barriers in order to be giving effectively.

Conceptual breakdown (I)

A conceptual breakdown of barriers:

  • Base values may be (non) utilitarian: People are optimising their own 'X', which does not coincide with impact --> no puzzle?

  • Avoiding information about effectiveness: Even if people want to optimise impact, they may specifically dislike and avoid gathering information about effectiveness in a charitable giving setting

  • Presenting effectiveness information may backfire: E.g., if it switches off the 'generous part of the brain', gets people to think in a more 'market' mode, or makes people indecisive

  • Judgement/cognition failures, quantitative biases, information failure: People try but fail to optimize, and/or have persistent incorrect beliefs

  • Emotion overrides cognition: Our brain serves two masters, those decisions are not consistent

  • Identity and signalling: Effectiveness in giving clashes with our self-image/self-beliefs, or with how we want to appear to others

  • Systemic factors (and inertia): social systems leading to pressure and incentives from others to give to local or less-effective causes. Even if impact is a goal these systems take a long time to adjust.

See 'barriers' View

I present and discuss this breakdown, a more practical breakdown, and specific examples in each category in the part of the synthesis. I go into further detail an (work to) present evidence on each of these in later sections of that site. (I plan to go through that work and extract only the key, most practical elements).

These barriers are also mapped, and connected with tools and evidence in .

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Barriers breakdown
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Increasing effective charitable giving: The puzzle, what we know, what we need to know next - 4  Breakdown of barriers
"Breakdown of Barriers"