Thanks very much for the comment, this is really interesting. The idea of explicitly adding in suicide risk is an interesting direction for the analysis, it sounds like good work. When you publish your paper, I’ll be interested to consider whether the underlying estimates of the badness of depression (perhaps implicitly) already reflect the suicide angle.
At some point it might be useful to do a more careful compare and contrast between your method (using Pyne et al’s paper) and our method (using the Sanderson paper). Given that the methods are quite different, if anything, I think it’s actually quite striking that the methods ended up with numbers that are actually fairly similar (0.145 DALYs per SD-year vs 0.18 DALYs per SD-year).
Thanks very much for the comment, this is really interesting. The idea of explicitly adding in suicide risk is an interesting direction for the analysis, it sounds like good work. When you publish your paper, I’ll be interested to consider whether the underlying estimates of the badness of depression (perhaps implicitly) already reflect the suicide angle.
At some point it might be useful to do a more careful compare and contrast between your method (using Pyne et al’s paper) and our method (using the Sanderson paper). Given that the methods are quite different, if anything, I think it’s actually quite striking that the methods ended up with numbers that are actually fairly similar (0.145 DALYs per SD-year vs 0.18 DALYs per SD-year).
The report is now public: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/ykdScawzq59ntw9N3