Hi @MarcusAbramovitch, many thanks for your support and for the thoughtful comment!

(Meta note to Manifund: I only received notifications for comments but not for donations I'm not sure if that's intentional?)

@peterwildeford Thanks for your show of support!

@PlasmaBallin Many thanks- we'd be interested to see the results too!

@Austin Many thanks- greatly appreciated!

@Adrian Thanks! We have run a number of private message testing experiments with a narrower focus (e.g. testing specific ads which an org is considering), but none which are broader/more fundamental like these proposed studies.

These broader studies seem to present something of a coordination problem, where they are of partial relevance to lots of different orgs, but (unlike the narrower studies) not solely relevant to any particular org. The end result is that no particular actor funds them.

Fwiw I found Blackpool to be a very pleasant place to live (my wife and I lived there for just over a year, largely due to the presence of the EA Hotel) and would personally prefer to live there rather than London (even setting aside the dramatic cost difference). The EA Hotel itself also provides a concentration of engaged EAs that seems hard to match outside of the very largest EA centres.