Would US respondents like the term “longtermism” or “existential risk reduction” more? (see description)
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As part of a project investigating EA/Longtermist framings, supported by Manifund, we have run a number of pilot studies as part of initial testing.

For one of these studies, a sample of approximately 2000 US respondents was recruited from a survey panel, weighted to be representative of the US population.

Respondents were randomly split to be shown either an EA-related term/name (n = 690), a conceptual description of these EA-related terms (without the name of the term; n = 696), or both the term and description together (n = 710).

For those shown only terms, respondents were shown a number of terms including “Longtermism” and "Existential risk reduction", as well as “Global catastrophic risk reduction” and others. 

They were then asked “Based only on the terms provided below, how much do you like or dislike each of the following?” on a seven point scale from “Dislike a great deal” to “Like a great deal.”

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Interesting markets. This one's title says "existential risk reduction," but the description says "global catastrophic risk reduction." Which did participants see?

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Thanks! The title is correct. Technically, the description is correct as well, because in this study we showed people a list of terms including longtermism and existential risk reduction and global catastrophic risk reduction and others. But I can see that this would be confusing, so I will note this explicitly in the description.

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