Yeah I think this is a really good question and would be excited to see that kind of analysis. Maybe I’d make the numerator be “# of charitable $ spent” rather than “# of charities” to avoid having the results be swamped by which areas have the most very small charities.
It might also be pretty interesting to do some similar analysis of how good interventions in different broad areas look on longtermist grounds (although this necessarily involve a lot more subjective judgements).
Yeah I think this is a really good question and would be excited to see that kind of analysis. Maybe I’d make the numerator be “# of charitable $ spent” rather than “# of charities” to avoid having the results be swamped by which areas have the most very small charities.
It might also be pretty interesting to do some similar analysis of how good interventions in different broad areas look on longtermist grounds (although this necessarily involve a lot more subjective judgements).