“Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism” by Jamie E, David_Moss

Author: EA Forum Team ([email protected])
Published: Sat 23 Aug 2025
Episode Link: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ypb6s6zwFiEKBiL3G/wave-2-of-pulse-awareness-and-perceptions-of-effective

This report is the first in a sequence reporting the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey of US adults aimed at tracking and understanding public attitudes towards effective giving and multiple impactful cause areas over time. Wave 2 of Pulse was fielded between February and April of 2025 with ~5600 respondents[1]. Results from our first wave of Pulse, fielded from July-August of 2024, can be found here, with the forum sequence version here.

This part of the Wave 2 sequence focuses on awareness of Effective Altruism (EA) and a range of related public figures and organizations, as well as attitudes towards EA.

Findings at a glance

Survey features:

Wave 2 of Rethink Priorities’ Pulse project surveyed ~5,600 US adults between February–April 2025, following up on Wave 1 (July–August 2024).
Results were poststratified to be representative of [...]

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Outline:

(00:58) Findings at a glance

(04:25) Awareness of Effective Altruism

(04:29) Population-level estimation

(06:56) Demographic subgroup estimates

(09:45) Attitudes towards Effective Altruism

(09:49) Attitudes among those who have already heard of EA

(11:25) Attitudes among those who have not heard of EA

(16:10) Awareness of EA-related terms, organizations, and people

(16:16) Terms

(18:08) Organizations