How does this differ from the more general practice of looking at the upper and lower bounds of the costs and impact of interventions and seeing how the interventions compare? This seems like something EAs do a lot and something I’ve personally begged systemic change advocates to do repeatedly (no takers so far).
I think I’m making a difference point. The context to the post was that it’s quite hard to estimate the EV of systemic interventions without a context, but it’s much easier to guess whether you think they’d cost more or less than a scaled-up atomic intervention.
I’m all for sensitive analysis too. This was more just to make the initial comparisons easier. Many EAs seem to wave away systemic interventions, often without even trying to run these sorts of numbers.
How does this differ from the more general practice of looking at the upper and lower bounds of the costs and impact of interventions and seeing how the interventions compare? This seems like something EAs do a lot and something I’ve personally begged systemic change advocates to do repeatedly (no takers so far).
I think I’m making a difference point. The context to the post was that it’s quite hard to estimate the EV of systemic interventions without a context, but it’s much easier to guess whether you think they’d cost more or less than a scaled-up atomic intervention.
I’m all for sensitive analysis too. This was more just to make the initial comparisons easier. Many EAs seem to wave away systemic interventions, often without even trying to run these sorts of numbers.