For an experiment that is going to have an explicit cost in the tens of thousands of dollars, and an even higher implicit cost, $1000 doesn’t seem like very much to bet on an aspect of it which you are confident in.
Not that the experiment would necessarily be an overall failure if some participants experience great emotional stress and washed out. A sufficiently high performance pressure org should expect wash outs.
(For what it’s worth, I am sympathetic to the sort of thing you’re trying to do here, and would be interested in participating in a similar experiment, but am very turned off by particular elements of your approach.)
Yeah that’s reasonable. I read your post as being unwilling to bet even $1000 overall, my b if that was a misinterpretation.
I didn’t expect you would be making any money on this venture (social organizing is usually expensive) - I expect that anyone willing to put together a venture like this is doing it because they think the outcome will be good, not because they think it will be personally profitable.
Regardless, I look forward to seeing what comes of your experiment.