Thanks Gergő - I've taken the demo down as I've advanced my thinking for Original Position and sadly haven't yet built a demo that is more representative. Anyone should feel free to DM me if you're curious to hear the latest with Original Position, and I'll share a public update if/when I secure launch funding.

Thanks for trying it out! I agree that what you describe is a bit of a failing of the current version. A true lottery should be random, making it just as likely to pick someone in the 86th percentile as the 6th percentile, but I agree that the flow ought to facilitate resampling and make the giving case on that basis. I'm working on a few things in this direction.

Agreed. Framing and targeting is such that I estimate >80% of participants will fall in the $150-600k per year income range, and that there's likely an even better descriptor of the relevant metric based on disposable income. I provide the broader income range for now to align with the IRS data on charitable giving.

Thanks for following up - that is actually just a bug in the flow that is sadly too annoying to fix before I hopefully improve the whole demo experience and make it irrelevant :)

Thanks, Nithin! I'll make the instructions clearer. For the demo, you need to adopt a 'persona' that is within the target demographic to go through the experience from their perspective. Would it help to provide some realistic financial info to input for this persona (i.e., income of $200k, expenses of $5k/month) or was it simply the lack of instruction that you needed to do this that caused the confusion? 

And yes, adding videos/images is definitely on the roadmap to explore, with some hesitancies including the risk of emotional manipulation. There's research on visual media increasing prosocial behaviour, for example, the "watching eyes effect" where "laboratory and field experiments have shown that people are more likely to be prosocial in the presence of watching eyes images". The intellectual honesty/emotional manipulation of such interventions isn't my area of expertise, so I'd be very grateful for any input from this community on heuristics for evaluating them.