On 11/11/2015 01:47 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 01:24:17PM -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> >> For anyone curious, a tl;dr for the article: people study matching and >> other things in traditional donating, and the results include things >> like anchor points and seeing what others do and donating *more* when >> you see others donating more (i.e. people donate to the projects that >> are already doing the best rather than pull back). Nothing super insightful. > > Perhaps you mean it isn't insightful if you've already internalized > the insights. ;) > > I'm sure our project will be interesting to the economic researchers > like the ones mentioned in the article. Has there been any outreach at > all? >
Oh, it could be interesting to reach out to these folks. David K Levine, an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis studies things like this somewhat and was one of the core steering committee members when we started this. And star popular Behavioral Econ researcher and author Dan Ariely took enough of a glance at Snowdrift.coop to affirm that everything we're doing fits into his understanding of what makes sense and is a good idea. He wished us luck. I'd like to get more of these people involved for sure. And yes, I meant by "not that insightful" as in "the concepts are already internalized in the design of Snowdrift.coop, no new insights that would impact our plans". -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/discuss
