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 “Existential security”, “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.”