Figure out calculation formula

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Context

A hacklab member throws events at Site3 and feels pressure to charge more by other members there. We started discussing how to offer pay-what-you-can (PWYC) without falling into the issue that the wrong ppl often feel PWYC low-balling is for them

A tool to help guide thoughtful behavior might be helpful to link to beside PWYC offer.

Considerations

• admin settings
  • maximum ticket price
  • minimum ticket price
  • minimum income
  • maximum income
  • allow variables in tool to be configured via querystrings in url
  • have sensible defaults for variables (based on local poverty line)
• technical
  • all front-end in JS
  • stateless (no backend database)
• allow people to say "unemployed" rather than dragging a slide to zero
• user experience
  • ticket price changes in increments, so as not reveal income through price paid
  • encourage experimentation. not just checking own price, but price of others.
  • set income via slider
    • increments in slider so as not to communicate precision ($1000? $5000?)
  • no submit button. to avoid communicating that data is submitted.
  • avoid specific personal context questions in favour of general "feeling" question like "do you feel financially secure?"
  • try to avoid these sorts of questions:
  • relationship status
  • dependants

Sample Endpoint

http://example.com/?ticket_min=0&ticket_max=25&income_floor=40000&income_ceiling=80000&ticket_increments=5

• since we dont' ask: income floor should assume household poverty line, not individual
• linear vs exponential? linear for now

Inspirations

• https://github.com/lambtron/amt-calculator

[patcon]

Someone else in hacklab had a half-serious thought about helping people choose price based on what sort of coffee they buy -- to help determine the sort of expendable income they have.

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Formula testing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lAUdLFX6EnjtbOnYRex-DytXkMXFCaw6U97i993DkGc/edit?usp=sharing

Formula is in cell E10 (scaling factor of 0.5 for financial insecurity)