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When Avocados Met Toast: A Millennial Love Story Gone Too Far

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far too obsessed with demographics, fundraisers posing as researchers discovered young people crave authenticity, sustainability, and trustworthiness. And, in a stroke of genius, they declared these desires exclusive to the young, as if generations before had thrived on artificiality, wastefulness, and deceit. The hilarious notion that these values […]

Learn More February 2, 2024

Use Case #3,468 for GPT: Surveys

You’ll find what I imagine to be at least 3,467 use-cases splattered across the internet. That makes this example, use case 3,468 and it’s uber novel, using GPT to generate survey research responses. That’s right, a machine answering survey questions and using a wash/repeat method to produce a dataset of say, 1,000 responses. That may […]

Learn More January 31, 2024

Does Your A/B (Testing) Need to Meet C and D?

What do 127,000 experiments over five years from a variety of sectors, including fundraising, tell us about what’s required to run better experiments? First, let’s define better: higher chance of winning and bigger uplift, which creates a multiplier for expected impact; the % chance of winning * likely uplift = expected impact. Here’s our take […]

Learn More January 29, 2024

What is GPT’s Personality?

Can a machine have a Personality? Well, it can be instructed to produce copy that matches certain traits and with guidance, does this quite well. A machine can be programmed to identify and match or mimic the dominant trait of a human on the other side of a text or chatbot conversation. This mirroring technique […]

Learn More January 26, 2024

Correcting a $16 Billion Mistake

If you’re annoyed by the vortex of political hype, misinformation and just pure bullshit inundating your life please be aware: it’s about to get much worse. As we enter the general election season most Agitator readers unfortunate enough to live in “battleground states” will be increasingly inundated through all channels—tv, email, social media, radio, telephone, […]

Learn More January 24, 2024

Urgency and Crying Wolf

The Boy Who Cried Wolf, a cautionary tale of urgency messaging. If I’ve read it once, I’ve read it a million (ish) times. Urgency is critical to get donors to take action now. Is it really that simple? When might urgency messaging backfire? Or maybe there is just a better motivator than urgency to prompt […]

Learn More January 22, 2024