Systematic research would be useful to many areas within EA, and I agree—that from a broader perspective it is incorporated more here than other communities.
I think this discussion would benefit from acknowledging the risk of confirmation bias and general systematic inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning errors. Especially with related to your criteria example, I think there is a danger of finding evidence to confirm to existing beliefs about what framework should be used.
All the same though, do you think systematically comparing several criteria options will arrive at a better outcome? How would we assess this?
Systematic research would be useful to many areas within EA, and I agree—that from a broader perspective it is incorporated more here than other communities.
I think this discussion would benefit from acknowledging the risk of confirmation bias and general systematic inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning errors. Especially with related to your criteria example, I think there is a danger of finding evidence to confirm to existing beliefs about what framework should be used.
All the same though, do you think systematically comparing several criteria options will arrive at a better outcome? How would we assess this?