Executive summary: The post describes mistakes HLI made in overconfident and inaccurate communications, outlines steps HLI is taking to improve research rigor and communications, and invites further constructive feedback.
Key points:
HLI acknowledges errors like overconfidence in claims about StrongMinds, misleading language, data mistakes in cost-effectiveness estimates, and delayed website updates.
HLI adds transparency with a public “Our Blunders” page and clarity in StrongMinds recommendations.
HLI improves research practices like more reviewer checks, uncertainty communication, and following best practices.
HLI revamps communications with a new Comms Manager role and tone changes.
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I’ve not seen this feature before but it looks awesome! If testing goes well, it would be really cool to integrate it more fully (eg: allow post author’s to put this executive summary at the top of their post).
edit Also I’m not sure it would balloon. I have runa couple of open documents with 100s or 1000s of editors and my experience is that people obey norms. I guess that if the box said, please be concise, EAs would bel
Executive summary: The post describes mistakes HLI made in overconfident and inaccurate communications, outlines steps HLI is taking to improve research rigor and communications, and invites further constructive feedback.
Key points:
HLI acknowledges errors like overconfidence in claims about StrongMinds, misleading language, data mistakes in cost-effectiveness estimates, and delayed website updates.
HLI adds transparency with a public “Our Blunders” page and clarity in StrongMinds recommendations.
HLI improves research practices like more reviewer checks, uncertainty communication, and following best practices.
HLI revamps communications with a new Comms Manager role and tone changes.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.
I’ve not seen this feature before but it looks awesome! If testing goes well, it would be really cool to integrate it more fully (eg: allow post author’s to put this executive summary at the top of their post).
And perhaps test ways of allowing users to edit or correct the summary.
If summaries are editable, it could be nice to keep the same length limit so that they don’t balloon during editing.
Or a character limit.
edit Also I’m not sure it would balloon. I have runa couple of open documents with 100s or 1000s of editors and my experience is that people obey norms. I guess that if the box said, please be concise, EAs would bel
I’d personally like that, as it summarised only 4 of the 7 points we made.