Quiz — EA Fellowship

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According to the 80,000 Hours article, how much do interventions differ in effectiveness within the same cause area?

By about 10–20% — small but meaningful differencesBy a factor of 10x to 100x or more — orders of magnitudeThey’re roughly similar once you account for overhead costsIt depends entirely on the cause area — no general pattern exists

Scope insensitivity is the tendency to:

Overestimate the effectiveness of large-scale interventionsPrefer local causes over global onesRespond similarly to problems regardless of their scale — reacting almost the same to 2,000 affected as to 200,000Discount future harms compared to present ones

Which of the following is NOT a component of reasoning transparency as described in the reading?

Stating your conclusion first and then showing your workingIndicating your confidence level and what would change your mindMaking your claims unfalsifiable so they can’t be challengedAcknowledging your assumptions and limitations

The EA guiding principle of “scientific mindset” means:

Only supporting interventions backed by randomised controlled trialsAvoiding overconfidence, seeking out critiques of your own views, and updating when evidence points in a new directionDeferring to experts rather than forming your own viewsPrioritising quantifiable outcomes over all other considerations

The FTX collapse is discussed in the reading primarily to illustrate:

That earning to give is always a bad strategyThat integrity and accountability matter as much as impact, and communities need to scrutinise even high-status membersThat effective altruism as a philosophy is fundamentally flawedThat longtermism leads to reckless behaviour

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