Question 1: You've won a prize! Either you can receive an amount of money equal to your average weekly income for personal use, or you can give 10x your average income to an anti-famine charity of your choice. Which do you choose?
Question 2: Relative to the median citizen of your country, do you lean left or right?
Results will be discussed at this blog:
1,000It's just occurred to me after already voting that some non-famine charities are probably more than 10 times as cost effective, so taking the money to allow donation to those other causes might actually allow more good ๐ค
Is that train of thought in line with the spirit of the question or is it meant to just test whether we would take the money for selfish use?
Some useful articles in case anyone reading is inspired to want to make actual donations :)
6 tips on disaster relief giving
https://blog.givewell.org/2013/11/12/6-tips-on-disaster-relief-giving
Investigation - Donating to the Somalia Famine