“EA Survey 2024: How People Get Involved in EA” by Willem Sleegers, David_Moss

Summary Understanding how people first encounter EA and what helps them get involved in EA is important for understanding how to optimize recruitment. With the Meta Coordination Forum survey suggesting that it would be ideal for the EA community to grow rapidly, this is of high importance. To meet the recommended targets, some of these routes into EA would need to scale very dramatically over the next year. Personal contacts (17.9%) and 80,000 Hours (15.8%) remain the largest sources of people first hearing about EA 80,000 Hours continues to increase in importance Personal contacts were particularly important for women first hearing about EA (25.2% vs. 15.2% for men) 80,000 Hours was particularly important for non-White people first hearing about EA (22.4% vs. 13.4%) Highly engaged EAs disproportionately first learned about EA through personal contacts (19.9% vs. 15.6%)) and EA groups (10.1% vs 6.4%) 80,000 Hours and personal contacts [...] ---Outline:(02:52) Introduction(04:19) Where do people first hear about EA?(09:16) Personal contact(10:07) Books, articles, and blog posts(10:12) Authors(11:29) Books(12:41) Articles(13:10) Blogs(13:33) Podcasts(14:15) Group differences(14:19) Gender(16:17) Racial/ethnic identity(17:09) Engagement(18:20) The effect of outreach(20:32) Factors Important for Getting Involved(25:25) Group differences(25:29) Gender(28:18) Racial/ethnic identity(29:44) Engagement(31:15) Referrer Robustness Checks(34:21) Appendix(34:25) Appendix 1: Alternative year-over-year comparison of where respondents first heard of EA(34:50) Appendix 2: Composition of engagement levels within each source of where respondents first heard of EA(35:07) Appendix 3: Alternative year-over-year comparison of factors important for getting involved in EA(35:36) Appendix 4: Factors important for getting involved in EA by cohort (as a proportion of the number of respondents in each cohort)(36:02) Appendix 5: Referral exclusions--- First published: March 24th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/r8XoHhKKzmQgxm2Lf/ea-survey-2024-how-people-get-involved-in-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.