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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
The earlier EA Survey Donation post (and linked notebook/Bookdown chapter on this) may be helpful.
But I'm not sure which base group you are considering, or what measure you are considering
Base group: All people who identify as EAs, all US Americans, all people in the world, all people in the world with income above some value?
Metric: Top 1% in terms of absolute amounts given or in terms of share of income given?
I think you might be able tease out the answer to some of your questions from [this paper](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Evolving-Distribution-of-Giving-in-the-United-Duquette/48b092a6436e213b45d86e090cce508ac16ab77d). Sorry I don't have the data/numbers to hand, I've worked on this before.