---
title: "The Profession Question"
number: 17
statement: "What should a charitologist be trained in, and does training change where money goes?"
progress: "A curriculum, and evidence comparing the decisions of trained and untrained advisors or donors on the same choices."
conditions: ["missing-profession"]
status: open
bounty: "Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded."
---

## Why it matters

Charitology’s founding claim is that a profession would improve where money goes, as medicine improved how illness is treated. That claim can be tested, so it should be. See [the Missing Profession](/diagnosis/missing-profession/).

## Where to start

The [Principles of Charitology](/record/principles/) textbook and the [Certified Charitologist](/programs/certified-charitologist/) program are draft curricula. A randomized study of a short training course is a feasible first test.